Yarl’s Wood Immigration Centre (Detainee Death) Debate

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Department: Home Office

Yarl’s Wood Immigration Centre (Detainee Death)

Bob Stewart Excerpts
Monday 31st March 2014

(10 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Brokenshire Portrait James Brokenshire
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It is right and proper that the ongoing police inquiry is pursued, and that the police should follow the evidence where it takes them. That is the right process. Clearly, we will support them in their ongoing investigations to ensure that they reach appropriate conclusions and, once they have finished their criminal investigations, that subsequent investigations are also concluded. I am certainly very clear that that needs to be pursued robustly and clearly to get to the facts of what has happened.

Bob Stewart Portrait Bob Stewart (Beckenham) (Con)
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All Members of the House are greatly saddened to hear about the death of a woman in Yarl’s Wood. Many of the people in Yarl’s Wood are likely to be victims of the criminal gangs who got them into this country illegally. What measures is my hon. Friend taking to try to identify and deal with those criminal gangs?