Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: and policy in relation to human trafficking.
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We must start the flights to stop the boats.The Government have consistently applied immigration law - Speech Link
2: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) of Great Britain and Ireland had an integrity in immigration policy: the common travel area applied. - Speech Link
3: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) application of EU law. - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) As she knows from real experience, immigration is a reserved matter and policy should be applied consistently - Speech Link
5: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) The result is that we have another hole in the Government’s immigration policy—a national immigration - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: The regressive measures introduced through law and policy, accelerated since the 2021 New Plan for
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I am sorry that the Statement does not extend to putting our policy into an international context and - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) law enforcement side. - Speech Link
3: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP - Life peer) Can he tell us what that understanding amounts to and whether it has any force of law? - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 28 2024
Inquiry: Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UKFound: include UK immigration law and its relationship to human rights.
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) exemption previously contained in the immigration exemption policy document into the legislation.The - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) policy, and I fear that the reputational ship is well on its way. - Speech Link
3: None immigration policy, which has been even more exposed than usual in recent days, with the publication - Speech Link
4: None as a result of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, or REULA. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association has commented in the past—not the immediate past but, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None law and, specifically, that the Illegal Migration Act proposals are compatible with Article 2 of the - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) law and, specifically, that the Illegal Migration Act proposals are compatible with Article 2 of the - Speech Link
3: None Immigration) Act 2024. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The Government have consistently applied immigration law on a UK-wide basis. - Speech Link
5: None The Government have consistently applied immigration law on a UK-wide basis. - Speech Link
6: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP - Life peer) Act, it has always been a clear principle that immigration law is a matter for application on a UK-wide - Speech Link
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Independent Review the Overseas Domestic Workers Visa by James Ewins, published on 16 December 2015, what the Government's policy is on the implementation of proposed changes in that review to the overseas domestic worker visa rules that have not yet been implemented.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office keeps immigration route policy under review, including that for the Overseas Domestic Worker route. We have introduced a number of reforms to the route for overseas domestic workers since 2015; designed to build on existing safeguards and in line with the broader immigration system. Employers of overseas domestic workers must act in accordance with UK employment law, and workers who find themselves a victim of modern slavery are protected by the National Referral Mechanism and may be eligible to apply for permission to stay as a domestic worker who is a victim of modern slavery.
Asked by: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the effect of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will be to disapply the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Northern Ireland.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will apply in full in Northern Ireland in the same way it does in the rest of the UK. This is set out on the face of the Bill, reflecting that immigration policy is a UK-wide matter.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights does not form part of domestic law anywhere in the UK, including Northern Ireland.
The published factsheet on this Bill has been updated to reflect the government position on the Bill in Northern Ireland: Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill: factsheet - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Rwandan nationals have successfully applied for asylum in the UK since 2019.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on grants by nationality are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 2023.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Those who need protection are normally granted refugee status or humanitarian protection.
All asylum and human rights claims lodged from within the UK and admitted to the UK asylum system, including those seeking asylum from Rwanda, are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations, and against the background of relevant case law, policy guidance, and the latest available country of origin information.