Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre: Bereavement Counselling

(asked on 29th March 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 21st April 2023

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.

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