HC Deb 21 January 1994 vol 235 c927W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what redress is available to visitors detained at airports but eventually allowed entry in respect of false imprisonment; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Charles Wardle

[holding answer 20 January 1994]: Paragraph 16 of schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971 provides that a person who may be required to submit to examination may be detained under the authority of an immigration officer pending his examination and pending a decision to give or refuse him leave to enter. It is open to anyone who considers that he has been falsely imprisoned to sue for damages.

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