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date	19/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Sri Lanka
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of Freedom from Torture's July 2020 report entitled Response to Country Policy and Information Note Sri Lanka: Tamil Separatism July 2020, of cases of 33 people tortured between 2015 and 2018; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	172011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2021 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need our protection.</p><p>All asylum and human rights claims from Sri Lankan nationals are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations.</p><p>Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw.</p><p>The key caselaw for Sri Lanka is <a href="http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/IAC/2013/00319_ukut_iac_gj_ors_srilanka_cg.html" target="_blank">GJ &amp; Others (post –civil war: returnees Sri Lanka CG [2013] UKUT 00319 (IAC) (5 July 2013)</a> (heard on 5-8 and 11-12 February 2013, 15 March 2013 and 19 April 2013), and our CPIN is focused around this. This acknowledges there are factors to be considered when deciding a case.</p><p>We do not consider pieces of information in isolation. We review a range of evidence to ensure balance and a complete picture is considered.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/03/2021 13:44:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1167407

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Sri Lanka
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sri Lankan nationals have been granted asylum in the UK on the grounds of torture since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	7705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not record the information in such a way that allows us to report on how many Sri Lankan nationals have been granted asylum in the UK on the grounds of torture since 2015.</p><p>The Home Office does publish data in the Immigration Statistics, which provides the total number of asylum applications for main applicants and outcomes including those granted asylum, by country of nationality, broken down by year. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables#asylum</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/11/2019 14:57:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

147592

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Sri Lanka
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department consults the Foreign and Commonwealth Office when determining the veracity of claims of torture by asylum applicants from Sri Lanka; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	214050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>We recognise that there are credible reports of torture, ill-treatment and sexual violence perpetrated by the security forces in the aftermath of the <br>civil war. The Home Office's consultation with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office varies from case to case. However, we are in regular discussions about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka more generally and the information provided is reflected in the Home Office’s published country information and guidance report(s) which are publicly available. <br><br>All asylum claims made by those from Sri Lanka continue to be carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with the 1951 Refugee Convention, the European Convention on Human Rights and against the background of the latest country information and relevant caselaw – including a Court of Appeal judgment from 18 June 2014 which found that not everyone, including all Tamils, are at risk on return to Sri Lanka.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/11/2014 16:05:08 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord