Question follow-through · 31155
Asylum: Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing asylum applications from people from Syria.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Visas · 1 Jul 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing asylum applications from people from Syria.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2025
Answer published
Following the fall of the Assad regime, the Home Office has withdrawn the Country Policy Information Notes and Guidance relating to Syria, and has temporarily paused all asylum interviews and decisions from Syrian nationals.We keep all country guidance re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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