Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the guidelines for people facing deportation to Sudan have changed as a result of the current unrest in that country.

We are monitoring the changing situation in Sudan and have issued a number of information updates to the business to ensure decision makers our informed of the unrest and potential its impact on persons returning to the country.

However, our position remains that where a Sudanese national is not able to demonstrate a protection need or that they have any other right to remain in the UK to us and, if they exercise an appeal right, the courts, we expect them to leave voluntarily. If they do not elect to do so, we may enforce their removal when it is safe to do so, on a case by case basis.

Our current assessment of risk by Sudanese nationals who claim protection in the UK is set out in our country policy and information notes published on gov.uk.