Immigration: Detention of Children Debate

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Department: Home Office

Immigration: Detention of Children

Lord Dholakia Excerpts
Monday 11th October 2010

(14 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Neville-Jones Portrait Baroness Neville-Jones
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The emphasis of our policy is obviously on keeping families together. I trust that we will not be in a situation in which children are detained for any length of period at all; but certainly if they were, education would be a very important factor.

Lord Dholakia Portrait Lord Dholakia
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My Lords, has the Minister taken a view on whether families should be deported to countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan and Zimbabwe, and particularly on the impact, which could be considerable on those being deported, of sending families with children back to those countries?

Baroness Neville-Jones Portrait Baroness Neville-Jones
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My Lords, if there are security factors in place, those of course introduce elements which are not necessarily present in all other cases.