At around 22:30 on Monday the 8th of June there was an adjournment “debate” in the House of Commons on the subject of the Oakington Immigration Removal centre. MP Diane Abbott used her valuable opportunity to decide the topic for the debate to discuss the centre.
Key Points
In response to Diane Abbott’s speech Home Office [...]
Reports written by Independent Monitoring Boards are published online by the the IMB Secretariat
Independent Monitoring Boards are members of the public who are given access to prisons and immigration detention centres so that they can observe how the facility is being run. Their remit is to verify that those who are being held are being [...]
Mr Howarth (MP for Cambridge),
I would like to draw your attention to the adjournment debate on Oakington Immigration Reception Centre to be held in the House of Commons on the 8th of June. I am writing to encourage you to take part in this debate given the fact the city you represent is the nearest [...]
I was today interviewed as part of the application process to become a member of the Independent Monitoring Board at Oakington Immigration Removal Centre.
The interview broadly followed the published questions for the interview, (http://www.imb.gov.uk/docs/DC_10_04__Annex_C_.pdf ) to which I had prepared responses.
I was impressed by the fact that those interviewing me, the vice-chair of the [...]
David Howarth,
I would like to draw your attention to the situation of Watford footballer Al Bangura who is facing deportation to Sierra Leone and add my voice to those calling for the Home Office to reverse its decision to deport him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/watford/7111120.stm
Al Bangura has built up his life in the UK establishing great ties to our [...]
I applied to become a member of the Independent Monitoring Board at Oakington Immigration Centre on the 2nd of December 2007.
The two primary questions on the application form asked why I wanted to be a member of the IMB and what skills and abilities I had to offer, my responses to these questions, which were [...]
Dear Penny Lambert (IMB Chair, Oakington IMB),
Having recently written to the IMB secretariat I understand that you currently have a vacancy on Oakington’s IMB. Could you please let me know if you are currently actively trying to fill this vacancy. The IMB secretariat has written to me saying: “Recruitment is carried out at a local [...]
OAKINGTON IMMIGRATION RECEPTION CENTRE INDEPENDENT MONITORING
BOARD ANNUAL REPORT
OAKINGTON IMB REPORT 2005 - PDF version.
Most Annual Reports from Independent Monitoring Boards are made available by the Home Office via their IMB website. Despite being made available to the Cambridge Evening News in time to write an article on the 2nd of May 2006, and presumably [...]