Written Evidence Apr. 04 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: am a law lecturer and researcher based at the University of Sussex.
Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Immigration) Act 2024. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Immigration) Act 2024. - Speech Link
3: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) concern“in relation to future availability of counsel”in immigration and asylum cases. - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) Does the Minister accept that it is his Government’s funding cuts and policy failures that have delivered - Speech Link
Written Evidence Jan. 29 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: RWA0018 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum & Immigration) Bill Essex Law School, University of Essex, and Essex
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: legislative and policy developments in the UK.
Found: international law.”
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the conformity of adding Georgia to the list of Safe States with the duties laid out in section 80AA(4) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 on LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
In order to inform ministerial decision making on whether to add India and Georgia to the list of Safe States in section 80AA of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (NIAA 2002), we made an assessment of the general situation in both countries, using evidence from a wide range of reliable sources in order to do so. This was in line with the requirements at section 80AA(3) and 80AA(4) of the NIAA 2002 (as inserted by section 59(3)(3) and 59(3)(4) of the Illegal Migration Act 2023).
Through considering country information and each country’s respect for the rule of law and human rights, we assessed that both countries met the criteria. Further information on the situation for LGBT people in Georgia and India is contained within our published Country Policy and Information Notes, available on Gov.Uk.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the conformity of adding India to the list of Safe States with the duties laid out in section 80AA(4) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 on LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
In order to inform ministerial decision making on whether to add India and Georgia to the list of Safe States in section 80AA of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (NIAA 2002), we made an assessment of the general situation in both countries, using evidence from a wide range of reliable sources in order to do so. This was in line with the requirements at section 80AA(3) and 80AA(4) of the NIAA 2002 (as inserted by section 59(3)(3) and 59(3)(4) of the Illegal Migration Act 2023).
Through considering country information and each country’s respect for the rule of law and human rights, we assessed that both countries met the criteria. Further information on the situation for LGBT people in Georgia and India is contained within our published Country Policy and Information Notes, available on Gov.Uk.
Written Evidence Feb. 08 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: RWA0023 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum & Immigration) Bill UK in a Changing Europe, and Middlesex University
Mentions:
1: None Immigration Appeals Act 1993, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and the Asylum and Immigration - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Immigration Appeals Act 1993, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and the Asylum and Immigration - Speech Link
3: William Cash (Con - Stone) importance in the national interest, and this illegal immigration law manifestly is.In the UK, we have - Speech Link
4: William Cash (Con - Stone) changes to its immigration law, all of which will require hotly contested constitutional changes and - Speech Link
5: None It is no wonder that they cannot formulate an immigration policy. - Speech Link
Found: Bill 201 2023-24 Lords Non-Insistence, and Amendments in Lieu