To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many full-time equivalent nurses provided health services at (a) Dungavel House, (b) Tinsley House and (c) Yarl's Wood in each of the last six years; (321102)

The three centres provide 24-hour on- site medical care.

The information available relates to period for which the current contractor has managed the centre.

At Dungavel House, from September 2006 to May 2009, 7.5 full-time equivalent (FTE) nurses provided health services. This increased to 8.25 FTE from May 2009. 0.75 FTE of a general practitioner attends the centre daily with additional support through an on call service.

At Tinsley House, for the past six years, 5.3 FTE nurses have provided health services. 0.5 FTE of a general practitioner attends the centre daily in the current year. In each of the previous five years, the FTE has been 0.7.

At Yarl's Wood, from April 2007, 13.2 FTE nurses have provided health services. 1.1 FTE of a general practitioner attends the centre daily.

This information is taken from local data and has not been subject to the detailed checks that apply for National Statistics publications. The data are provisional and subject to change.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long on average it took for detainees to be transferred from Dungavel House to detention facilities in England in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10. (322668)

[holding answer 16 March 2010]: The information requested is not centrally recorded and can be provided only by detailed examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what support is available at immigration removal centres for detainees diagnosed with stress or depression. (322670)

[holding answer 16 March 2010]: All our immigration removal centres provide primary health care services equivalent to that found in the community.

In accordance with the Detention Centre Rules 2001, all detainees undergo a health screening with a nurse within two hours of their arrival, and an appointment is made for them to see a GP within 24 hours. GPs will see detainees earlier than this if there is a particular acute need.

The health care teams in immigration removal centres include Registered Mental Nurses and provide a range of welfare services such as counselling to help detainees to manage their time in detention where they are suffering from stress of depression.

Where a detainee is suffering from a more serious form of mental illness, the centres have access to psychiatrists either to advise on the more appropriate course of action, in conjunction with the local primary care trust.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with his Italian counterparts on the removal to Italy of Eritrean detainees held in immigration removal centres. (322671)

[holding answer 16 March 2010]: The UK Border Agency has regular discussions with our Italian counterparts on a variety of migration issues. This includes regular contact at senior level through the Justice and Home Affairs fora in Europe relating to issues surrounding the continued implementation of the Dublin regulations. Officials in UKBA, including a seconded member of staff permanently based in Rome, regularly discuss specific cases in terms of the Dublin regulations and the logistics of removal, and a number of these cases will relate to Eritreans in detention in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date a Minister from his Department last visited an immigration removal centre. (322672)

[holding answer 16 March 2010]: I visited Dungavel House in December 2009.

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary visited Yarl's Wood in February 2010 and my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office, the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier), visited Yarl's Wood in March 2010.

This information is taken from local management data and is therefore provisional and subject to change.