Yesterday in the House of Commons the time limit amendment was defeated by 64 votes (328 to 264). We knew that success looked unlikely, but the government majority was reduced, four Conservative MPs voted for the amendment, as [...]
Last week, the House of Lords voted in favour of an amendment to introduce a time limit for immigration detention and to end indefinite detention for EU and Swiss nationals. The Bill returns to the House of Commons on [...]
Katie Close Consultant Parliamentary Officer Detention Action Last night the House of Lords voted for the amendment to introduce a statutory 28 day time limit for immigration detention. Speeches were made by Baroness Hamwee, Baroness Bull and Baroness [...]
Jonathan Ellis, project director at Detention Forum, offers a few individual reflections With the Home Secretary promising an overhaul of the asylum system in the UK, it is timely to take stock to reflect on why [...]
Katie Close Consultant Parliamentary Officer Detention Action On Monday the House of Lords debated the amendment to introduce a time limit at Committee stage of the Bill. Baroness Hamwee introduced the amendment with her usual eloquence and [...]
Detention Forum was really keen to offer our support to the recent inter-agency letter to the Immigration Minister, Chris Philp MP. Along with 31 other organisations that support and advocate for people going through immigration detention, we wanted [...]
Anna Pincus Director, Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group During the time of Covid-19, fear has felt corrosive. Loss of agency has been a defining characteristic of life. For those in detention, total loss of freedom is the norm [...]
After the summer recess, the Immigration Bill is due to re-appear in the House of Lords next week. After the disappointment of seeing the Time Limit amendment fail to win a majority in the House of Commons, we [...]
Jerome Phelps Strategy and advocacy consultant, and former Director of International Detention Coalition and Detention Action The summer of 2013 was a very different world. President Obama was on course to sweep to a second term. ‘Brexit’ [...]
Dr Anna Lindley Senior Lecturer, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London Risk is a key ‘organizing concept’ for immigration control regimes and often comes up when talking about immigration detention. As one UK detention officer [...]