HC Deb 26 January 1995 vol 253 cc301-2W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make it his policy not to authorise the detention of any asylum seeker who has entered the United Kingdom illegally but whose application for asylum has not been determined; and if he will make a statement;

(2) if he will instruct immigration officers that they do not have powers to compel an illegal entrant to submit to examination and to be detained for that purpose; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Nicholas Baker

These questions raise issues which are currently being considered by the Court of Appeal and the court's judgement will be given very careful consideration once it is received. In the meantime, it is not proposed to change our current general practice.