The Home Affairs Committee’s 3rd report: the UK eBorders programme claims that digitalising immigration control would be illegal in the European Union. This has been denied by Minister for Immigration Phil Woolas.
In response to parliamentary questions the government has provided
- a breakdown of the numbers of persons in immigration removal centres by place of detention and sex.
- figures for attempts to remove asylum seekers which have been successfully challenged, covering the last two financial years.
- numbers of asylum seekers supported in accommodation in Scotland, by parliamentary constituency.
