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Select Committee
Sir Alex Younger KCMG

Oral Evidence Apr. 30 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Given that the Kurds struggle, because their resources are limited, to keep these places under control

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

Feb. 29 2024

Source Page: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information - Thematic report on the coverage of statelessness (February 2023)
Document: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information - Thematic report on the coverage of statelessness (February 2023) (PDF)

Found: UK (19 August 2022), based on HO, 2021 figures): ranked from highest to lowest numbers of claimants- Iran

Select Committee
MI6, University of Reading, and European Institute of Peace

Oral Evidence Sep. 12 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Many members do not like Iran.

Select Committee
Department of War Studies, Kings College London, and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Oral Evidence Sep. 12 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Many members do not like Iran.

Select Committee
UN Sanctions Monitoring Group, SOAS Middle East Institute, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies and KCL, and International Crisis Group

Oral Evidence Jan. 16 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: What if Turkish forces invade Syria further, and the Kurds can’t protect the camp any more?

Select Committee
Professor Alexander Evans

Oral Evidence May. 07 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Yemen, in Iraq, in Iran, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan so you end up with tens of millions of people

Select Committee
Cruickshank & Dean Global Intelligence

Oral Evidence May. 07 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Yemen, in Iraq, in Iran, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan so you end up with tens of millions of people

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 13 Jun 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) Israel on the threat from Iran. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) security forces targeting the Kurds. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) Friend done to challenge the dangerous and continued militarisation in Iran? - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) that country—along with China, Russia and Iran—is deeply concerning. - Speech Link

Select Committee
Council for Arab British Understanding (Caabu)
 MENA0055 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Until the Saudi-Iran deal of March 2023, these two major regional powers were engaged in a series of

Written Question
Asylum: Kurds
Tuesday 9th May 2023

Asked by: Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will include Kurds from Iraq and Iran in the streamlined asylum process.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

From 23 February, legacy claims from nationals of Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Syria and Yemen will be considered through the Streamlined Asylum Process.

This is on the basis of their current high-grant rate of protection status (refugee status or humanitarian protection). All these nationalities have a grant rate of over 95% and over 100 grants of protection status in the year-ending September 2022. Please see Migration statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.

Upon arrival, all asylum seekers undergo a screening interview, as well as robust security checks in which they will provide biometric information.

Separate work is ongoing to more efficiently process all other asylum claims admitted to the UK asylum system awaiting consideration. To further accelerate decision making we will further drive productivity improvements by simplifying and modernising our system. This includes measures like shortening interviews, removing unnecessary interviews, making guidance simpler and more accessible, dealing with cases more swiftly where they can be certified as manifestly unfounded (e.g. Albania) and recruiting extra decision makers.