Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect the repeal of section 4(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 will have on the number of people who are released from immigration detention on immigration bail.

The repeal of section 4(1) is not expected to have any discernible effect on the number of people released from immigration detention on immigration bail

Paragraph 9 of Schedule 10 to the 2016 Act contains powers to provide accommodation to people released from detention on bail and to those who require it in order to avoid a breach of their Article 3 rights. Additionally, individuals granted immigration bail who are asylum seekers or failed asylum seekers can access support provided under sections 95 or 4(2) of the 1999 Act if they would otherwise be destitute and meet the normal eligibility criteria.

Immigration offenders who can leave the UK to avoid a breach of their human rights are expected to do so.