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Manston Inquiry Terms of Reference

My hon Friend the Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:

On 12 February 2025, the Government announced the establishment of a non-statutory Inquiry, to investigate and report on the decisions, actions and circumstances which led to the conditions encountered by those detained at the Manston Short-Term Holding Facility between 1 June 2022 and 22 November 2022.

A copy of the Terms of Reference for the Inquiry was placed in the Libraries of both Houses.

Since then, at the request of the Senior Coroner for Kent and Medway HM Senior Coroner, Patricia Harding, and after consulting the Chair of the Inquiry, Sophie Cartwright KC, the Home Secretary has agreed to expand the Terms of Reference for the Inquiry to expressly include addressing how, and in what circumstances Hussein Haseeb Ahmed came by his death on 19 November 2022.

In order to comply with Section 6(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005, I will place a copy of the amended Terms of Reference in the Libraries of both Houses.