Oral Question·Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
“What steps he has taken to support the creative industries during the covid-19 outbreak.”
Tabled: 2 July 2020Answered: 9 July 2020
Asked by
Zarah Sultana
Your Party — Coventry South
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Dame Angela Eagle)
Immigration centres are not used for indefinite detention. We can only keep anyone in detention in an immigration centre if there is a reasonable prospect of their removal. If there is not, they have to be released.