Asylum: Females

(asked on 6th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of provisions in the Nationality and Borders Bill on women seeking asylum in the UK after fleeing sexual violence and trafficking.


Answered by
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Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 18th January 2022

The Nationality and Borders Bill is the most significant overhaul of our asylum system in over two decades. It will bring in a new, comprehensive, fair but firm long-term plan, which seeks to address the challenge of illegal migration head on, and to take down the serious organised criminals exploiting people and profiting from human misery. Only by tackling illegal migration can we effectively help those in greatest need.

An Equality Impact Assessment was published on 16 September, and this includes consideration of possible impacts on women who have been subjected to sex-based violence and/or trafficked for a sexual purpose.

The Equality Impact Assessment can be found on the GOV.UK website at ; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nationality-and-borders-bill-equality-impact-assessment.

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