The Short-term Holding Facility Rules 2018

Correspondence

24.—(1) Subject to such reasonable conditions as are imposed by the Secretary of State, a detained person may (at their own expense)—

(a) send and receive as many letters as desired;

(b) send facsimiles within reasonable limits set by the manager, and

(c) receive facsimiles.

(2) If a detained person does not have the necessary funds to do so the Secretary of State—

(a) must bear the postage expense of any letter and the cost of any facsimile to the detained person’s legal adviser, the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the High Court, the Court of Session, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, the First-tier Tribunal or the Upper Tribunal (or any court entitled to hear an appeal against a decision of those bodies);

(b) must bear the postage expense of any letter and the cost of any facsimile to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Members of the United Kingdom Parliament and any Embassy or Consulate, and

(c) may bear the postage expense of any reasonable number of other letters and the cost of any reasonable number of other facsimiles which that person wishes to send.

(3) A detained person must be provided on request with the materials necessary for the purposes of sending letters and facsimiles pursuant to paragraph (1).