Written Question·Home Office·UIN 70949

Undocumented Migrants: Detention Centres

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 9 September 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UK — Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to house irregular migrants only in secure detention centres.

Answer

Alex Norris
Immigration detention plays a key role in maintaining effective immigration controls and securing the UK’s borders. The Home Office detains people initially for examination purposes and for the purpose of removing people who have no right to remain in the...
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