Question follow-through · 15337
Asylum: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing asylum seekers to undertake paid work.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing asylum seekers to undertake paid work.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
At present, asylum seekers who have had their claim outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own, can apply for permission to work. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Immigration Salary List. This list is based on ex...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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