Asylum: Interviews

(asked on 30th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people who make a protection or human rights claim for asylum and who meet the four conditions set out in clause 2 of the Illegal Migration Bill would undergo an asylum screening interview.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 18th April 2023

In respect of screening interviews for those in scope of clause 2 of the Illegal Migration Bill, the processes for implementing the measures will be set out in due course.

Section 17 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 provided that where an asylum claim is declared inadmissible under sections 80A or 80B of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, that individual may be supported under section 4(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Clause 9 of the Illegal Migration Bill provides that where an asylum claim is declared inadmissible under clause 4 of the Bill, that individual may be supported under section 4(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Support under section 4(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 is available where an individual appears to be destitute and satisfies one or more conditions in regulation 3(2) Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) Regulations 2005.

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