Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the findings of the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration Annual Inspection of 'Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention' (2018–19), published in April; and what actions they will make as a result of its findings.

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration Annual Inspection of 'Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention' (2018–19) and Home Office response were published on 29 April 2020 and can be found at the links below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-inspection-of-adults-at-risk-in-immigration-detention-2018-19

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/response-to-the-annual-inspection-of-adults-at-risk-in-immigration-detention

As set out the Home Office has accepted, or partially accepted, seven of the ICIBI’s eight recommendations:

• Continue to implement recommendations from previous related reports
• Agree a cross-government strategy to reduce the detained population
• Review Home Office guidance, processes and forms that relate to detention risk and vulnerability
• Review where the authority not to detain/release should sit and at what grade
• Produce an improvement plan for key stages of detention (prior to and during admission and once in detention)
• Review the 2016 PES to accompany AAR guidance

Analyse the treatment and conditions of detainees and Foreign National Offenders detained in prison