Question follow-through · 76523
Migrants: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Alternative to Detention schemes piloted under the Home Office’s Community Engagement Pilot series.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Alternative to Detention schemes piloted under the Home Office’s Community Engagement Pilot series.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
Following analysis of the pilots’ published evaluations, the Department did not see sufficient evidence to progress these. We will keep under review the feasibility of alternatives to detention, taking account of effectiveness and cost efficiency, as part...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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