Drew Hendry
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(4 years, 6 months ago)
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Priti Patel
The hon. Gentleman makes a thoughtful comment about community-based detention and detention as a whole. Detention is there for a reason. Obviously, other discussions and debates have taken place around this, but importantly when it comes to the Windrush lessons learned review, the way in which people were treated and, through the Home Office and immigration enforcement, put in detention was completely wrong. We have to make sure that that does not happen again and that we do not have cases like that again. Clearly, that is part of the wider work with the lessons learned review.
Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) (SNP)
The recommendations state that the Home Secretary should urgently review all “compliant environment”—in other words, hostile environment—measures “individually and cumulatively”. Will she apologise for the hostile environment’s role in this and follow the recommendation to review it to the letter?
Priti Patel
I have spoken about the recommendations and implementing the report, and obviously I will update the House on how we will implement those recommendations.