Document Location: Kent

Letter from Victoria Atkins MP, Minister of State for Justice, about the Cookham Wood 2020-21 annual report.

Thank you for your Board’s report for the year ending 31 October 2021. I am grateful to you and your colleagues for your hard work in capturing these helpful observations, particularly as Covid-19 continued to impact on your ability to gather information. I was saddened to hear that outside of the reporting period there has been a death in custody by natural causes; my officials take recommendations from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman very seriously.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Elmley for reporting year 1 November 2020 – 31 October 2021.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMYOI Cookham Wood for reporting year 1 September 2020 – 31 August 2021.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP East Sutton Park for reporting year 1 November 2020 – 31 October 2021.

Letter from Victoria Atkins MP, Minister of State for Justice and Minister for Afghan resettlement, in response to Standford Hill 2020-21 annual report.

Letter from Victoria Atkins MP, Minister of State for Justice and Minister for Afghan Resettlement, in response to Rochester 2020-21 annual report.

Letter from Victoria Atkins MP, Minister of State for Justice and Minister for Afghan Resettlement, in response to Swaleside 2020-21 annual report.

Letter from IMB chair to the Home Office about the conditions and treatment of cross-channel detainees.

This report primarily summarises the conditions at the Tug Haven and the Kent Intake Unit (KIU) observed on the evening of 10/10/21 and the early morning of 11/10/21.