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Immigration: Detention Centres

Volume 460: debated on Tuesday 22 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times (a) the police and (b) ambulances were called to (i) Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre, (ii) Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, (iii) Dover Immigration Removal Centre, (iv) Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre, (v) Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, (vi) Haslar Immigration Removal Centre, (vii) Lindholme, (viii) Oakington, (ix) Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre and (x) Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre in the last year for which figures are available. (136972)

Removal centres are not required to record the number of occasions when either the police or ambulances have been called. The police attend centres as part of the liaison in cooperating over security information and ambulances would be called to centres only in cases of emergency.