HC Deb 09 December 1981 vol 14 c399W
Mr. Race

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will instruct his officials at Harmondsworth detention centre not to refuse letters from hon. Members addressed to prisoners held at the centre; and if he will make a statement on the refusal of his officials to accept a letter delivered by the Post Office from the hon. Member for Wood Green, and addressed to Mr. Samuel A. Quaye.

Mr. Raison

Persons detained at the immigration service detention centre at Harmondsworth are permitted to receive, without any restriction, any correspondence addressed to them.

I informed the hon. Member in a letter dated 10 November that arrangements would be made for Mr. Quaye's removal to Ghana, and he was removed on 14 November. A letter addressed to Mr. Quaye, in an envelope indicating that it had come from the House of Commons, was received at Harmondsworth after Mr. Quaye had been removed. It was returned to the Post Office to be forwarded to the the sender.

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