Immigration: Detention Centres

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:20 pm on 15 February 2006.

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Photo of Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Labour 3:20, 15 February 2006

My Lords, will the Minister confirm that in some cases of unexpected deaths in detention centres the coroners' courts take between two and three years to hold an inquest? Is that not unfair on the relatives and the family, and does it not mean that it takes much longer than it should for the lessons to be learnt from those tragedies?