Asylum: Detainees
(asked on 14th December 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what rules asylum seekers are detained in the UK.
This question was answered on 5th January 2022
Information on our powers to detain are set out in our published Home Office Detention: General Instructions guidance on page 11.
This includes the power to detain for the purposes of initial examination under paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act and the power to detain for the purpose of removal under paragraph 16(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act.