EVIDENCE ON DETENTION ISSUES NEEDED

SARAH TEATHER MP CHAIRS PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY INTO IMMIGRATION DETENTION.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees and APPG on Migration are conducting a parliamentary inquiry into the use of immigration detention in the UK. The inquiry, which Sarah Teather will be chairing, will examine the use of detention in the UK immigration and asylum systems, with a particular focus on the conditions within detention centres, the impact on individual detainees and their families, the wider financial and social consequences, how detention is used in other countries, and the future role of detention within the immigration system.

The inquiry invites written evidence from a broad range of stakeholders, including government representatives and civil servants, local authorities, charities, researchers, and voluntary organisations working with detainees and individual detainees, former detainees and families of detainees themselves.

of any individuals who are or have been in detention, or any organisation that works with such that could put forward evidence, either written or in person ?

can give further information and advice.

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