Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to classify members of the Rohingya community as stateless in respect of applications for asylum.

Whether a person is stateless is a matter of fact and law. Therefore, each case needs to be considered on its facts. It is open to a person to apply for leave to remain as a stateless person. This cannot be done at the same time as an asylum claim is being pursued.