Migrants: Detainees
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to revise Home Office guidance prohibiting the use of force against a) children and b) pregnant people in immigration removals.
Answered by Alex Norris
The Home Office is currently undertaking – until 4 June – a targeted consultation to help inform changes to the family returns process. The consultation seeks views from expert practitioners, children’s commissioners, and key stakeholders on the use of physical interventions during an enforced family return.
Responses to the consultation will be used to develop policy and operational practice moving forward. The intention is to publish a formal response setting out the consultation’s findings.
There is no plan to revise the use of force guidance against pregnant people.
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