Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the to the Written Statement by the Minister of State for Immigration on 8 June (HCWS837), what are the reasons for their policy changes on the treatment of asylum seekers set out in that Written Statement.

The Illegal Migration Bill represents a considerably stronger means of tackling the same issue that the differentiation policy sought to address: people making dangerous and unnecessary journeys through safe countries to claim asylum in the UK.