Immigration Rules: Supported Accommodation Debate
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Baroness Hamwee
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Immigration Rules: Supported Accommodation
Baroness Hamwee Excerpts(3 years, 11 months ago)
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Baroness Hamwee (LD) [V]
My Lords, the Home Office relies on the UNHCR in connection with its resettlement programme. The Minister will know that the UNHCR is concerned about asylum seekers being left in limbo, so why did the Home Office not consult the UNHCR and others about the changes and issues such as exactly how people will be assisted to access support?
Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)
The changes to the Immigration Rules are small and technical, and some of them are clearly almost an extension of Dublin in terms of the safe country rules. On asylum seekers being left “in limbo”, if by “limbo” the noble Baroness means destitute or in any way left to fend for themselves, I say that no one will be left destitute: everyone will be treated with dignity and respect.