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751 records in 2023
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their asylum claim withdrawn because they did not complete the Streamlined Asylum Process questionnaire.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled UK and Türkiye strengthen partnership to help tackle illegal migration, published 9 August 2023, whether her Department has reached an agreeme
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people whose asylum claims were withdrawn in the year ending June 2023 have (a) left the UK, (b) regularised their immigration status and (c) remained in the UK without any status.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the UNHCR on the reunification of families in safe countries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department have taken to (a) support people who have had their asylum claim withdrawn and (b) ensure that people who have had their asylum claims withdrawn do not become victims of (i)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims withdrawn between June 2022 and June 2023 have been reinstated.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that unaccompanied child asylum seekers arriving in the UK are not placed in adult prisons.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government how many unaccompanied child asylum seekers have been placed in HMP Elmley in Kent; and how many are still held there.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the National Audit Office's report on the Government's Asylum and Protection Transformation Programme.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 2023
Fort Ontario National Monument Establishment Act This bill establishes the Fort Ontario National Monument in Oswego, New York, as a unit of the National Park System. The site shall preserve, protect, and interpret the history of (1) Indigenous people who once inhabited the land on which Fort Ontario is located, (2) Fort Ontario and its previous fortifications, and (3) refugees from World War II who were housed at Fort Ontario.
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 September 2023
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 September 2023
Beleidsreactie VluchtelingenWerk Nederland (VWN) onderzoeksrapport “Gevlucht en vergeten?” over de leefomstandigheden van asielzoekers in de (crisis)noodopvang
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 September 2023
Doorduwen van opvang vluchtelingen in Midden-Delfland
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 September 2023
Beleidsreactie WODC-rapport inzake rondreizende amvs
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on accommodation for asylum seekers within the London Borough of Havering in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on private security firms for asylum seeker accommodation within the London Borough of Havering in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ukrainian refugees are awaiting biometric residence permits; for what reasons there have been delays in processing those permits; and what the average wait time was to receiving a permit in t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on her Department's ability to access the Official Development Assistance budget for the purposes of paying for a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential effect of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on access to justice for asylum seekers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what consular protection his Department provides to refugees with UK asylum status who travel abroad; and whether he has plans to extend that protection.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan people who acted as interpreters for the British military remain in Afghanistan as of 6 September 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish details of the hotel chains with which her Department has signed contracts for the exclusive use of asylum seeker accommodation within the last 12 months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timeline is for completing the resettlement and housing of Afghan citizens who are currently housed in hotels in Pakistan under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Programme scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people awaiting asylum determination are housed in postcodes: (a) BH3 7, (b) BH12 5, (c) BH12 1, (d) BH10 6, (e) BH10 5, (f) BH9 2, (g) BH4 9, (h) BH9 1, (i) BH4 8, (j) BH2 6, (k) BH11 9, (l)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were awaiting the outcome of their asylum application in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London on 1 September 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 20 July (HL9141), why they do not hold records that would enable them to answer parliamentary questions on the age of the youngest unaccompanied child seeking as
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government whether it is their current policy to place unaccompanied children seeking asylum, who are waiting for placement with a local authority, in hotels; and, if so, how many are placed in hotels.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) asylum, or (2) humanitarian protection, visas were granted to people from China in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, and (d) 2022.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were awaiting the outcome of their asylum application in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) Bexley Borough and (c) Greater London on 1 September 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that families of asylum seekers housed on a waterborne barge will be kept together.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost payable to the government of Rwanda under the agreement with that country in the event that no migrants are sent there from the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what arrangements they will put in place to ensure Aspen card holding asylum seekers can exchange a payment from their cards for any goods they require.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of risk facing refugees who are resident in the UK who encounter difficulties abroad; and what plans they have to ensure they receive consular assistance at the same level as UK c
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what arrangements they will make for delegations of parliamentarians to visit the Bibby Stockholm and any other new accommodation for migrants.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that asylum seekers housed on a waterborne barge are able to access necessary help in any emergency, including a medical emergency or fire.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that China has engaged in the refoulement of North Korean refugees; and what representations they have made to the government of China about the repatriation of North Korean refugee
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2023 to Question 194955 on Asylum: Boats, if her Department will publish the Equality Impact Assessment completed for the Bibby Stockholm.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up on the termination of asylum support following asylum decisions.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what number and proportion of notices to quit were issued within (a) 7 days, (b) 14 days, and (c) 21 days of an asylum decision for each month between April 2022 and July 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seeker children have been (a) sent to adult prisons and (b) sent to adult prisons where paedophiles are serving sentences in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart the offshoring of people seeking asylum to Ascension Island.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2023 to Question 181937 on Asylum, how many legacy asylum claims submitted before 28 June 2022 have not yet received a decision.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were staying in (a) hotels or (b) other forms of accommodation on 1 September 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people denied asylum have been granted humanitarian protection in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much from the public purse his Department has spent on feasibility studies for the offshoring of people seeking asylum to the UK Overseas Territories in each of the last
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to help support (a) homeless people and (b) refugees obtain a bank account.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which constituencies the provision of temporary accommodation in hotels for asylum seekers is being reduced; and in which constituencies capacity in already used hotels is being increased.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current guidance for Job Centre staff on assessing the education status of Ukrainian refugees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish publish the National Centre for Social Research’s independent assessment of the second alternative to detention community engagement pilot delivered by the King’s Arms Project enti
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan people who were previously housed in hotel accommodation in the UK prior to 31 August 2023 have presented themselves as homeless to local authorities as of 1 September 2023.