Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 28
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Ensure foreign language legal advice information and improve mobile phone reception in detention centres.
Recommendation
We welcome the Government’s announcement that all Detained Duty Advice Scheme appointments in immigration detention, including Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), will now be delivered face-to-face. However, the Government must address further potential barriers to accessing legal advice in Derwentside IRC. It must ensure that information in foreign languages about how to access legal advice is more readily available and displayed on posters throughout Derwentside IRC and the wider immigration removal estate. The Government must also take steps to improve mobile phone reception in Derwentside IRC and set out in response to this Report the steps it has taken to do so. (Paragraph 175) UK/Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 19 September 2023. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document ↗