Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Court of Appeal’s instruction on 10 February to the Home Office not to remove anyone scheduled to be deported to Jamaica from two detention centres on 11 February unless the Home Office was satisfied that those scheduled for deportation had access to a functioning non-O2 Sim card on or before 3 February, on what basis any such deportations then took place.

The 17 Foreign National Offenders who were deported by charter flight on 11 February were individually assessed against the Court of Appeal order. The 17 were not covered by the terms of the order as they were either not held at IRC Colnbrook or IRC Harmondsworth or otherwise had been assessed by the courts as not being affected by the O2 outage.