Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons Review

(asked on 1st February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Immigration, Mr Robert Goodwill on 19 January (59369), against which key actions from the Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons (Cm 9186), published in January 2016, will Stephen Shaw QC be asked to assess progress, and whether he will have any say in which key actions are included in his remit.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 9th February 2017

The follow up to the review by Stephen Shaw CBE into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons will take place in late 2017. Mr Shaw will be invited to assess the implementation of all his review recommendations.

The timings and resources for the follow up review are to be agreed with Mr Shaw.

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