Deportation

(asked on 15th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she takes to ensure compliance with the UK's international legal obligations on non-refoulement when deporting people to conflict affected countries.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 22nd June 2015

In accordance with the Refugee Convention and our other international obligations, the UK carefully considers all asylum claims, so that no-one is returned to a country where they have a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership of a social group or political opinion, or to a country where they would be at real risk of serious harm as a result, for example, of indiscriminate violence due to armed conflict. Those whose applications are rejected and whose appeal rights are exhausted are required to leave the UK and their removal will be enforced if they fail to do so.

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