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Immigration Bill

Proceeding contribution from Richard Fuller (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 December 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Immigration Bill.

I, too, think that the people we ask to manage detention centres do a good job in general. On a point of clarification, my concern arises not from my constituency’s proximity to a detention centre, but from the proximity of the rules to my ethical code. My hon. Friend mentions that the issue is about the care of people in detention centres. Is he aware of the case of PA, a pregnant woman detained in Yarl’s Wood? The Home Office has recently had to admit that she was not given proper antenatal care. Is not the issue that if we detain pregnant women, mistakes will be made, and we therefore need to protect ourselves and our ethics from such mistakes by exempting those people from the rules?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
603 c191 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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