Asylum: EU Countries

(asked on 24th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of allowing applications to be dealt with in the UK for asylum applicants who have been granted asylum in another European country.


Answered by
Angela Eagle Portrait
Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 2nd July 2025

Where a person already has asylum or subsidiary protection in another European country, the person’s claim will usually be declared inadmissible (meaning that their asylum claim will not be substantively considered in the UK), and they will be removed to that country, if they refused to return voluntarily.

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