Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre

Lord Avebury Excerpts

Tuesday 3rd March 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Elton (Con)]

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[Lord Avebury (LD)]

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[Lord Ramsbotham (CB)]

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[Lord Bates]

I will look again at what the noble Lord said at that point. There is of course the independent monitoring board, which is headed by Mary Coussey, a former Independent Race Monitor. The immigration monitoring board has the keys to Yarl’s Wood and can go in and out at any point in time. Obviously, it will need to look very carefully at how it has undertaken its responsibilities, and the conclusions which it has drawn from its activities.

[Lord Avebury]

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[Lord Elton]

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