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1285297

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date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to help ensure that asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries can (a) quarantine effectively and (b) proceed with their asylum claim during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p>The Home Office have a statutory duty to accommodate any asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute. Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free, fully furnished accommodation while their applications for asylum are considered. The Accommodation providers recognise the challenge of managing COVID 19 within our accommodation estate and are working closely with Public Health England (PHE) on how their guidance on social distancing and self-isolation is properly applied, while ensuring that people can continue to access essential services.</p><p>The accommodation is provided for free to those asylum seekers in receipt of asylum support and we do not recoup costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151753 question first answered 22/02/2021 16:22:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1285298

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to seek to recoup the cost of hotel quarantine from asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p>The Home Office have a statutory duty to accommodate any asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute. Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free, fully furnished accommodation while their applications for asylum are considered. The Accommodation providers recognise the challenge of managing COVID 19 within our accommodation estate and are working closely with Public Health England (PHE) on how their guidance on social distancing and self-isolation is properly applied, while ensuring that people can continue to access essential services.</p><p>The accommodation is provided for free to those asylum seekers in receipt of asylum support and we do not recoup costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151752 question first answered 22/02/2021 16:22:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1285300

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to deny entry to the UK to asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p> </p><p>We have a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation, and as such the Home Office will continue to provide accommodation in which asylum seekers can self-isolate to stop to spread of Covid.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494157222%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=wAzzL9aHv7qbqRMFYSv1SuCLd6iBTPgRsfJvM%2BKm27k%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics quarterly release</a>. Data on the number of asylum applications in each quarter, broken down by nationality is published in table Asy_D01 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=cuQOsmZ1wIgb8jopWeydsUlrm3IgnIPg1Zik1j4gFCQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum detailed datasets</a>. The latest data are to the end of September 2020, with data to the end of December 2020 due to be published on 25<sup>th</sup> February 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F937206%2Fasylum-summary-sep-2020-tables.xlsx&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=htJughjYKCP3EFluAxjUEFYn2Dqk5W1VowOXTSwZeD0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum.</p><p> </p><p>The published data does not show the country from which the asylum seeker left when they began their journey (or through which country or countries the asylum seeker subsequently travelled) in order to reach the UK, or when they arrived in the UK. Some asylum seekers may have been in the UK (or another country) for some time before claiming asylum. An individual with a particular nationality may not have actually been in that country for a significant length of time prior to claiming asylum. It is therefore not possible to say from the available data whether or not the individual has recently travelled from a ‘red list’ country.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151755 question first answered 22/02/2021 09:46:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1285305

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of asylum seekers from countries on the red list who have arrived at the UK border since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p> </p><p>We have a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation, and as such the Home Office will continue to provide accommodation in which asylum seekers can self-isolate to stop to spread of Covid.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494157222%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=wAzzL9aHv7qbqRMFYSv1SuCLd6iBTPgRsfJvM%2BKm27k%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics quarterly release</a>. Data on the number of asylum applications in each quarter, broken down by nationality is published in table Asy_D01 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=cuQOsmZ1wIgb8jopWeydsUlrm3IgnIPg1Zik1j4gFCQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum detailed datasets</a>. The latest data are to the end of September 2020, with data to the end of December 2020 due to be published on 25<sup>th</sup> February 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F937206%2Fasylum-summary-sep-2020-tables.xlsx&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=htJughjYKCP3EFluAxjUEFYn2Dqk5W1VowOXTSwZeD0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum.</p><p> </p><p>The published data does not show the country from which the asylum seeker left when they began their journey (or through which country or countries the asylum seeker subsequently travelled) in order to reach the UK, or when they arrived in the UK. Some asylum seekers may have been in the UK (or another country) for some time before claiming asylum. An individual with a particular nationality may not have actually been in that country for a significant length of time prior to claiming asylum. It is therefore not possible to say from the available data whether or not the individual has recently travelled from a ‘red list’ country.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151754 question first answered 22/02/2021 09:46:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady