PQ - Lisa Nandy : who will inspect Pease Pottage detention facility for children and families - 12/10/11
12th Octobcer 2011
Lisa Nandy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who she expects to undertake the independent inspection of pre-departure accommodation centre for families and children detained for immigration purposes at Pease Pottage opened on 5 September 2011. [73553]
Damian Green: Cedars, the pre-departure accommodation for families with children at Pease Pottage, which I opened on 17 August, fulfils the Government's commitment to end the detention of children. It will be subject to independent inspection by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, who already has statutory responsibility for the UK Border Agency's short-term holding facilities as well as its immigration removal centres. An Independent Monitoring Board will also be appointed for the facility and the Children's Commissioner for England will have statutory right of access.
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