A new parliamentary inquiry has called for a 28-day cap on the time that anyone can be held in immigration detention in the UK, to end the indefinite detention of migrants and asylum-seekers. The All Party Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the UK said that current Home Office guidance - which said that detention should be used sparingly - was ineffective, and was not being followed. The Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather, who chaired the inquiry, said: ‘We believe the problems that beset our immigration occur quite simply because we detain far too many people unnecessarily, and for far too long. The current system is expensive, ineffective, and unjust.’ A new parliamentary inquiry has called for a 28-day cap on the time that anyone can be held in immigration detention in the UK, to end the indefinite holding of migrants and asylum-seekers.