Asylum: Employment

(asked on 30th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of restrictions on the right to work for people seeking asylum on the long-term integration prospects of people who are subsequently granted leave to remain.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 7th November 2018

Government support towards integration is focussed on those recognised as those being in need of protection.

This Government is committed to ensuring that all those recognised as refugees in the UK are able to integrate and realise their potential. The Government published the Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper in March 2018, which included measures relating to integration for refugees. We are considering responses to the consultation, and plan to publish the Government’s response later this year.

Our current policy on the right to work for asylum seekers is consistent with EU law and permits asylum seekers to work, in jobs on the Shortage Occupation List, if they have been waiting for a decision on their claim for 12 months or more and the delay is through no fault of their own.

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