United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 151754
Asylum: Coronavirus
Introduced
9 February 2021
Last action
22 February 2021 · Answer
Status
Answered
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Subjects
Asylum
Source updated
22 February 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to deny entry to the UK to asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries during the covid-19 pandemic.
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9 February 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to deny entry to the UK to asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries during the covid-19 pandemic.
Source: Commons
22 February 2021
Answer
Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual. We have a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation, and as such the...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-02-09/151754
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1285300
- uk · wq-1285300 · source updated 22 February 2021