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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2020-09-21more like thismore than 2020-09-21
answering body
Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Asylum more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum applicants are required to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach. more like this
tabling member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne Central remove filter
tabling member printed
Chi Onwurah more like this
uin 92768 remove filter
answer
answer
is ministerial correction true more like this
date of answer less than 2020-09-24more like thismore than 2020-09-24
answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We believe that those who reach safe countries should stay and claim asylum without delay, rather than make further, unnecessary and often dangerous journeys in order to claim asylum in a country of their own choosing.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Illegal migration from safe countries undermines our efforts to help those most in need - controlled resettlement via safe and legal routes is the best way to protect such people and disrupt the organised crime groups that exploit migrants and refugees.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">To support these principles, the UK, the EU and other countries in the world employ legal procedures to return people to the safe countries through which they have passed. In the case of the UK, the majority of such returns presently take place under the Dublin Regulation, but from 1 January, such returns will take place according to our domestic rules.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Where the UK considers the claim of someone who has failed to take advantage of a reasonable opportunity to make an asylum claim or human rights claim while in a safe country, the law requires that behaviour to be taken into account as damaging to the claimant’s credibility.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We believe that those who reach safe countries should stay and claim asylum without delay, rather than make further, unnecessary and often dangerous journeys in order to claim asylum in a country of their own choosing.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Illegal migration from safe countries undermines our efforts to help those most in need - controlled resettlement direct from conflict zones via safe and legal routes is the best way to protect such people and disrupt the organised crime groups that exploit migrants and refugees.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">To support these principles, the UK, the EU and other countries in the world employ legal procedures to return people to the safe countries through which they have passed. In the case of the UK, the majority of such returns presently take place under the Dublin Regulation, but from 1 January, such returns will take place according to our domestic rules.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Where the UK considers the claim of someone who has failed to take advantage of a reasonable opportunity to make an asylum claim or human rights claim while in a safe country, the law requires that behaviour to be taken into account as damaging to the claimant’s credibility.</ins></p>
answering member constituency Croydon South more like this
answering member printed Chris Philp more like this
question first answered
less than 2020-09-24T16:09:45.353Zmore like thismore than 2020-09-24T16:09:45.353Z
question first ministerially corrected
less than 2020-09-24T20:08:58.783Zmore like thismore than 2020-09-24T20:08:58.783Z
answering member
4503
label Biography information for Chris Philp more like this
previous answer version
49772
answering member constituency Croydon South more like this
answering member printed Chris Philp more like this
answering member
4503
label Biography information for Chris Philp more like this
tabling member
4124
label Biography information for Chi Onwurah more like this