United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 131091
Refugees
Introduced
5 March 2018
Last action
8 March 2018 · Answer
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Answered
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Asylum
Source updated
8 March 2018
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will assess the potential merits of expanding the definition of refugees to include people displaced by environmental factors.
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5 March 2018
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will assess the potential merits of expanding the definition of refugees to include people displaced by environmental factors.
Source: Commons
8 March 2018
Answer
The Refugee Convention 1951 is an international treaty which sets the global definition of who is a refugee. It does not have an explicit category that covers those displaced by environmental factors. The government continues to work with our global partn...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-03-05/131091
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/855786
- uk · wq-855786 · source updated 8 March 2018