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1544461

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date	22/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the potential merits of allowing asylum seekers who have been waiting for over six months for a decision on their asylum claim to work in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	93611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Following last year’s review and in light of wider priorities to fix the broken asylum system, reduce pull factors, and ensure our policies do not encourage people to undercut the resident labour force, we have decided at this stage not to pursue any changes to the policy. Instead, we are focusing our resources on transforming the asylum system and making faster decisions. This will prevent people becoming stuck in the system for long periods of time and allow genuine refugees to integrate and contribute into society more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 93613 93614 question first answered 25/11/2022 11:08:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1544463

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of permitting asylum seekers to work on the attractiveness of the UK labour market to foreign workers.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	93613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Following last year’s review and in light of wider priorities to fix the broken asylum system, reduce pull factors, and ensure our policies do not encourage people to undercut the resident labour force, we have decided at this stage not to pursue any changes to the policy. Instead, we are focusing our resources on transforming the asylum system and making faster decisions. This will prevent people becoming stuck in the system for long periods of time and allow genuine refugees to integrate and contribute into society more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 93611 93614 question first answered 25/11/2022 11:08:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1544465

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance by her Department entitled Permission to work and volunteering for asylum seekers, published on 28 October 2022, what the evidential basis is for saying that asylum seekers should be restricted from working to ensure a clear distinction between economic migration and asylum that discourages those who do not need protection from claiming asylum.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	93614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Following last year’s review and in light of wider priorities to fix the broken asylum system, reduce pull factors, and ensure our policies do not encourage people to undercut the resident labour force, we have decided at this stage not to pursue any changes to the policy. Instead, we are focusing our resources on transforming the asylum system and making faster decisions. This will prevent people becoming stuck in the system for long periods of time and allow genuine refugees to integrate and contribute into society more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 93611 93613 question first answered 25/11/2022 11:08:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1541737

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing asylum seekers to work while their applications are being processed.
tabling member constituency	Norwich North
tabling member printed	Chloe Smith
uin	86436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List.</p><p>Any further right to work could undermine legal routes and act as a pull factor to those seeking to come to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/11/2022 11:46:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith

1541513

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the employment opportunities open to people seeking asylum.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	84919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL). A review into the policy was completed last year and the findings were announced on 8 December 2021. We have decided to retain our policy with no further changes.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 84920 question first answered 21/11/2022 17:09:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1541514

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the one year limit for people seeking asylum being eligible to work.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	84920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL). A review into the policy was completed last year and the findings were announced on 8 December 2021. We have decided to retain our policy with no further changes.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 84919 question first answered 21/11/2022 17:09:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell