HC Deb 08 March 2001 vol 364 c308W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the detention centres being used for holding asylum seekers. [152678]

Mrs. Roche

Immigration detainees, including those people who have sought asylum, are currently accommodated in the following dedicated immigration detention and reception centres:

  • Campsfield House
  • Tinsley House
  • Harmondsworth
  • Oakington Reception Centre.

Dedicated Prison Service facilities are also utilised at:

  • Rochester
  • Lindholme
  • Haslar.

As a short-term measure, until additional dedicated immigration detention centres come on line later this year, immigration detainees are being accommodated in the following Prison Service establishments:

  • Belmarsh
  • Liverpool
  • Holme House
  • High Down
  • Wandsworth
  • Winchester
  • Bullingdon
  • Lincoln
  • Cardiff
  • Elmley.