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Monday 7th January 2013

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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They are UK-wide figures.

Baroness Teather Portrait Sarah Teather (Brent Central) (LD)
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22. When she expects to announce the asylum support rates for 2013-14.

Lord Harper Portrait The Minister for Immigration (Mr Mark Harper)
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There are no current plans to change the asylum support rates, but we do of course keep the matter under constant review.

Baroness Teather Portrait Sarah Teather
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The Minister’s Department has not made a decision on the asylum support rates in this financial year. He has therefore frozen the rates by default, without coming to the House to announce that decision. I understand from an announcement made in another place that a review is ongoing, but does he accept that kicking the matter into the long grass for a further year simply will not do?

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