Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to provide counselling and bereavement support to people at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre.
Published Home Office Detention Services Order 08/2014 Deaths in detention provides guidance as to the actions that Home Office and contracted supplier staff must take in the event of a death in detention.
The Home Office publish annual data on deaths in detention as part of the Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release. The annual data for 2017 to 2021 are included in table Det_05b in the Detention summary tables.