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date	06/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Cyprus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what documents set out current arrangements with the government of Cyprus regarding responsibility for refugees and asylum seekers arriving at the UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus; and how much has been paid as a result of such arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	21202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Refugee Convention places no obligation on the UK to consider asylum claims made outside its immediate territory. Since 2003, under a Memorandum of Understanding agreed with the Republic of Cyprus, anyone seeking asylum will have their claim processed by the Cypriot authorities on behalf of the The Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus (SBA). The SBA is responsible for payment of any associated costs.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 21364 question first answered 14/01/2016 16:13:38 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

443053

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Cyprus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what legal grounds her Department has sought to pass responsibility for assessing the claims of refugees arriving at the UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus to the government of the Republic of Cyprus.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	21364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Refugee Convention places no obligation on the UK to consider asylum claims made outside its immediate territory. Since 2003, under a Memorandum of Understanding agreed with the Republic of Cyprus, anyone seeking asylum will have their claim processed by the Cypriot authorities on behalf of the The Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus (SBA). The SBA is responsible for payment of any associated costs.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 21202 question first answered 14/01/2016 16:13:39 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

427452

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Cyprus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have refused to interview and assess some of the boat people who arrived at the British Sovereign base in Cyprus; whether they plan to deport them as individuals to Lebanon; and what assessment they have made of whether deporting those individuals to Lebanon would be an instance of refoulement.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL3496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>Under an existing agreement with the Republic of Cyprus, those who claim asylum will be processed by the Cypriot authorities on behalf of the Sovereign Base.</p><p>Those migrants who do not claim asylum and have no other basis on which to remain, face removal to their country of origin or Lebanon.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/11/2015 15:27:30 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton