Asked by: Sam Tarry (Labour - Ilford South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on access to the asylum system for Afghan people.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
There has not been an explicit assessment on the impact this has on people of Afghanistan; however, impact assessments regarding the Illegal Migration Act have been published on GOV. UK under Illegal Migration Bill: overarching documents - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Government what steps they are taking to review the criteria for the granting by Home Office officials of asylum - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the public are rightly concerned at recent cases which seem to indicate that our asylum system - Speech Link
3: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) press reports that suggest that the Home Office has been following a policy of not returning people to Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) First, I emphasise that it is not Home Office policy that dictates the return of persons to Afghanistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) My Lords, how many of those already denied asylum are still in the country? - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) position of Afghans who had supported our servicemen or translators while they did honourable duty in Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) making asylum applications on first application? - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Obviously, some of the cases we are looking at will involve people from Afghanistan, as the noble Lord - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is to accept those who can demonstrate that they assisted the British forces in Afghanistan. - Speech Link
2: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) minutes to read the story of my constituent, who gave so much of his life to support our forces in Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) The Bill does not oblige the Government to return anybody from Afghanistan; there are explicit schemes - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The situation in Afghanistan in particular is deteriorating at the moment. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) Saying that Afghanistan is not a safe place is something of an understatement. - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Dunbartonshire (Martin Docherty-Hughes) has already mentioned, in our report on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) I would not compare Rwanda, which we consider to be a safe country for those who are ineligible for asylum - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) How many more immigrants does he want to come to the UK from Afghanistan? - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) Friend aware that Pakistan is now forcing Afghan asylum seekers back to Afghanistan? - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) That is a significant amendment, particularly in the context of Afghanistan. - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) When Afghanistan fell, we had about 80 people in touch who had relatives in Afghanistan, but I know of - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The first relates to Lords amendment 10 and those who helped us in Afghanistan. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Under the Programme Order of 18 March, any message from the Lords in respect of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) Only Labour’s plan can fix our country’s broken asylum system—[Interruption.] - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , an Afghan who now happens to be in Pakistan because he had to leave Afghanistan after threats to him - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We also have bespoke routes responding to crises in Ukraine and Afghanistan and the Hong Kong BNO visa - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) Lords, can the Minister explain exactly what accessible facilities are available in a country such as Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the noble Baroness will be aware that the situation on the ground in Afghanistan is very complicated—I - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) There were 5,186 asylum applications from unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the year ending June - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister, in a rather throwaway remark, acknowledged there are still children from Afghanistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) They put their trust in the UK-US project in Afghanistan, and that trust has been thoroughly breached.I - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The asylum system is broken, and we know who broke it. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) —[Official Report, House of Lords, 20 March 2024; Vol. 837, c. 254.]We know that families from Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: None Members, I have spoken to people who escaped Afghanistan—people who helped the police and UK armed forces - Speech Link
5: None They have been left in Afghanistan with their families in a desperate plight, often having to go from - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) extended the hand of friendship to people fleeing conflict and persecution in Ukraine, Hong Kong and Afghanistan - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) We will also end the use of 250 asylum hotels and other inappropriate accommodation for asylum seekers - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) provide sanctuary for those fleeing the most dreadful conflicts around the world, including in Ukraine, Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) report with Helena Kennedy recommending that the UK Government have a humanitarian visa for women in Afghanistan - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) abuse, environmental disaster and wars, some of which this country has been involved in, such as in Afghanistan - Speech Link