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Asylum: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that asylum seekers are not deported prior to a final judgement on their case.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
18 Nov 2024
Answer
22 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that asylum seekers are not deported prior to a final judgement on their case.

  2. 18 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Every asylum claim admitted to the UK asylum system is carefully considered on its individual merits by assessing all the evidence provided by the claimant against a background of published country information. No one who is at risk of persecution or seri...

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