Asylum

(asked on 14th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, what plans they have to make new arrangements for the welfare of asylum seekers following the UK’s departure from the EU.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 28th September 2020

Adult asylum seekers and their children who would otherwise be destitute are supported by the Home Office under arrangements set out in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Unaccompanied asylum seeking children are supported under arrangements provided for in the Children Act 1989, or equivalent legislation in the devolved administrations. As the support arrangements are provided for in domestic legislation there is no need to make changes to them as a result of our departure from the EU.

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