Deportation Flight to Jamaica Debate

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Department: Home Office

Deportation Flight to Jamaica

Alex Chalk Excerpts
Monday 10th February 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kevin Foster Portrait Kevin Foster
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Anyone entering immigration detention is assessed as part of our adults at risk policy where there is a concern, but let me be clear: these are people who have been through the criminal justice process, some on a number of occasions; they have completed sentences and are now liable under the law to deportation. They have been judged on their criminality, not their nationality, but there are exemptions provided for in the 2007 Act.

Alex Chalk Portrait Alex Chalk (Cheltenham) (Con)
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Parliament in 2007 passed legislation to require the Government to deport those guilty of serious or persistent offences. In those circumstances, does my hon. Friend agree with me that, were the Government not to do it, they would be liable to judicial review?