Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Logan and Damian Collins

Monday 8th February 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mark Logan (Bolton North East) (Con)]

What steps her Department is taking to reform the asylum system.

[Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe) (Con)]

What steps her Department is taking to reform the asylum system.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Chris Philp)]

The asylum system is in need of fundamental reform, and the Home Secretary and I will be introducing legislation in the relatively near future to do exactly that. Too many people come into the UK having first passed through a safe country—for example, France—without having claimed asylum there. We are determined that we are going to have an asylum system that will protect those people in genuine need of protection while preventing the abuse that we sadly too often see.