Immigration Detention APPG
First Registered: 19/06/2019 • Last updated on: 29/12/2021
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TwitterTo raise awareness in parliament about immigration detention in the UK and its impacts; to connect parliamentarians with relevant research, organisations and experts, including people with lived experience of detention; and to advocate for evidence-based policy reforms and the welfare of detainees.
1. Detention summary tables, year ending June 2020
27/08/2020 - Home Office
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Found: Immigration Statistics year ending June 2020Detention - Summary TablesPublished: 27 August 2020Next
2. Detention summary tables, year ending March 2020
27/07/2020 - Home Office
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Found: Immigration Statistics year ending March 2020Detention - Summary TablesPublished: 21 May 2020Next
3. Detention summary tables, year ending December 2020
25/02/2021 - Home Office
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Found: Immigration Statistics year ending December 2020Detention - Summary TablesPublished: 25 February
4. Notices of Amendments as at 19 June 2020
22/06/2020 - Bill Documents
Found:
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Initial detention: criteria and duration
5. Written evidence submitted by the Law Society of England and Wales (IB09)
16/06/2020 - Bill Documents
Found: Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
Written evidence submitted by the
1. Immigration Detention: Victims of Trafficking
27/04/2021 - Westminster Hall
1: this House has considered the effect of immigration detention on potential victims of trafficking.It is - Speech Link
2. Immigration
28/04/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: trafficking from being held unnecessarily in immigration detention. The changes are due to come into effect - Speech Link
3. Immigration: Detainee Support
07/07/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: are taking to ensure that no detainee of an immigration removal centre is released without support for - Speech Link
2: Inspector of Prisons about the situation in immigration and detention centres during the pandemic, and the report - Speech Link
3: arbitrary nature of the Home Office’s approach to detention and shown it to be both cruel and unnecessary - Speech Link
4. Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery
09/07/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: are routinely being locked up in Yarl’s Wood detention centre, often for months on end. Instead of offering - Speech Link
2: responsibilities—for modern slavery and for immigration enforcement—sit uncomfortably within the Home - Speech Link
3: trafficking services. Sometimes I have to speak to the immigration wing of the Home Office and explain issues of - Speech Link
5. Immigration Detention: Victims of Modern Slavery
17/07/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: are determined to stamp it out. In my role as Immigration Minister, I am especially aware of the shocking - Speech Link
2: year, the Immigration Minister provided a written answer on the possible immigration detention of persons - Speech Link
asked by: Alison Thewliss
04/06/2020
... what the monthly cost is of running each immigration removal centre. 2. Immigration: Detention Centres
asked by: Lord Touhig
18/02/2019
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what meetings they have had with faith groups to ensure that chaplaincy and pastoral support is available to people in immigration detention. 3. Immigration: Detention Centres
asked by: Lord Touhig
18/02/2019
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that people held in immigration detention receive appropriate access to chaplaincy and pastoral support. 4. Immigration: Detention Centres
asked by: Lord Touhig
18/02/2019
...To ask Her Majesty's Government how many religious chaplains have been appointed to each immigration removal centre and short-term holding facility in each of the last five years. 5. All Party Immigration Detention Group
asked by: Alison Thewliss
11/01/2021
... when she plans to respond to the letters of 30 July and 24 August 2020 from the all-party Parliamentary group on immigration detention.
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16 Current APPG Officers
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Alison Thewliss
Chair & Registered Contact
Scottish National Party - Glasgow Central
Joined: 19th June 2019Afghanistan , Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax , Bahá'í Faith , British Hindus , British Sikhs , Building Communities , Cameroon , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Drug Policy Reform , Fair Business Banking , Financial Markets and Services , Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency , HIV and AIDS , Hospitality and Tourism , India , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , International Students , Jazz Appreciation , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Markets , Maternity , Mortgage Prisoners , Museums , Ovarian Cancer , Stem Cell Transplantation and Advanced Cellular Therapies , Students , Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities , Theatre , Ticket Abuse , United Nations Women , University , Votes at 16 , White Ribbon UK , Working at Height , Yemen
Afrikan Reparations , Caribbean , Deaths Abroad, Consular Services and Assistance , Drug Policy Reform , Fairtrade , Industrial Heritage , Malawi , Missing Children and Adults , No Recourse to Public Funds , Refugees , Rohingya , Social Integration , Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities , Universal Credit
Afrikan Reparations , Black Maternal Health , Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Business Owners , British Overseas Territories , Crypto and Digital Assets , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Healthcare Infrastructure , Knife Crime and Violence Reduction , Race and Community , Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
Adult Social Care , Bangladesh , Extreme Poverty , Hajj and Umrah , Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness
Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming , Antibiotics , Customer Service , Drones and Modern Conflict , Electoral Reform , Gardening and Horticulture , Hong Kong , Human Microbiome , Legal Aid , Small and Micro Business , Universal Credit , Wetlands , Woods and Trees , Working at Height , Youth Employment
Adult Education , Afrikan Reparations , Ageing and Older People , Arts and Heritage , Austria , BBC , Black Maternal Health , Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Business Owners , British Overseas Territories , Carbon Monoxide , Citizens Rights , Commonwealth , Cycling and Walking , Dalits , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Dentistry and Oral Health , Disability , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Equitable Life Policyholders , Fatherhood , Flags and Heraldry , Gasworks Redevelopment , Global Security and Non-Proliferation , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Haiti , Hospice and End of Life Care , Insurance and Financial Services , Internet, Communications and Technology , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Kosovo , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Limits to Growth , Longevity , Media , Music , No Recourse to Public Funds , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Opera , Park Homes , Period Equality , Photography , Race and Community , Religious Education , Republic of Korea , Retail Crime , Road Freight and Logistics , Rowing , Scientific , Scotch Whisky , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Single Parent Families , Social Enterprise , Social Integration , Social Science and Policy , Social Work , St George's Day , Tibet , Transport Safety , United Nations , United Nations Women , Vascular and Venous Disease , Votes at 16 , Western Rail Link to Heathrow , Western Sahara , Wine and Spirits , Wine of Great Britain , Women in Transport , Youth Affairs
Armed Forces , Climate Change , Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights , HIV and AIDS , Pacific Islands , Somaliland
Adult Social Care , Air Pollution , Autism , Black Maternal Health , Brain Tumours , Council Housing , Deliberative Democracy , Kinship Care , Knife Crime and Violence Reduction , Land Value Capture , Multiple Sclerosis , Net Zero , Parks and Green Spaces , Southern Rail , Women and Work
Compassionate Politics , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Food Banks , Health and the Natural Environment , Migration , Mindfulness , No Recourse to Public Funds , Poverty , Refugees , Rule of Law , Tennis , Universal Credit
Stuart C McDonald
Officer
Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Joined: 19th June 2019Choice at the End of Life , Citizens Rights , Immigration Law and Policy , Lithuania , No Recourse to Public Funds , Social Integration , Trafficked Britons in Syria
Banning Trophy Hunting , Catalonia , Equitable Life Policyholders , Listed Properties , Outdoor Learning , Social Work , Uzbekistan , Wine of Great Britain
Contact Details
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Alison Thewliss MP, 33 London Road, Glasgow, G1 5NW. Tel: 0141 552 7117.
Email: alison.thewliss.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Elspeth Macdonald, Medical Justice, Durham Road Resource Centre, 86 Durham Road, London N7 7DT. Tel: 020 7561 7482
Email: contact@appgdetention.org.uk
Secretariat:
Medical Justice acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.medicaljustice.org.uk/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
Show/Hide28 Jan 2021
Medical Justice
Secretariat From : 28/01/2021 To : 27/01/2022
£9,001
28 Jan 2020
Medical Justice
Secretariat From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
£9,001
24 Apr 2019
Medical Justice
Secretariat From : 24/04/2019 To : 23/04/2020
£9,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Immigration Detention APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Baroness Hamwee
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
Afzal Khan
Vice Chair
Labour - Manchester, Gorton
Joined: 19th June 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Action on Conflict and Global Britain , Adult Social Care , Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Britain-Pakistan Trade and Tourism , British Muslims , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Food Banks , Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency , Hajj and Umrah , Hate Crime , Kashmir , Lawyers and Judges at Risk Globally , Lebanon , Magnitsky Sanctions , Muslim Women , Oman , Pakistan , Palestine , Poverty , Race Equality in Education , Saudi Arabia , United Nations Women , Uyghurs
Paul Sweeney
Treasurer
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Glasgow North East
Joined: 19th June 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Joan Ryan
Secretary
The Independent Group for Change - Former Member for Enfield North
Joined: 19th June 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Ruth George
Officer
Labour - Former Member for High Peak
Joined: 19th June 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Stuart C McDonald
Officer
Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Joined: 19th June 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Choice at the End of Life , Citizens Rights , Immigration Law and Policy , Lithuania , No Recourse to Public Funds , Social Integration , Trafficked Britons in Syria
Keith Vaz
Officer
Labour - Former Member for Leicester East
Joined: 19th June 2019Departed: 5th November 2019