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Question follow-through · 36659

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department employs anyone to work exclusively on statelessness determination applications.

answeredKirsty BlackmanHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
14 Mar 2025
Answer
14 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department employs anyone to work exclusively on statelessness determination applications.

  2. 14 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office employs a small team which covers the issue of statelessness applications, but also routinely covers different, or additional work, as business needs and priorities require.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Training

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36658 on Home Office: Training, how many people have acted as mentors in the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Training

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36658 on Home Office: Training, how many people have been mentored in the last 12 months.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Refugees

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36656 on Refugees, whether any statelessness determination applications have been granted since 5 July 2024.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Refugees

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36656 on Refugees, whether any statelessness determination applications have been refused since 5 July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Information Officers

23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in her Department; and what the salary band is for each post.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Staff

29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the job titles of staff in her Department's statelessness determination unit.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Training

29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36658 on Home Office: Training, how many technical specialists are employed by her Department to provide training on statelessness determination onl

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Training

29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36658 on Home Office: Training, whether the training described is specific to statelessness determination.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Refugees

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the most common grounds were for the rejection of statelessness applications submitted in 2024.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Refugees

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to data provided by her Department in relation to the court case Asylum Aid v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 316 (Admin), for what reason 170 statelessness appli

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Refugees

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many rejections of statelessness applications submitted in 2024 have been followed by renewed applications.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Refugees

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decisions on statelessness applications made in 2024 were challenged through administrative review; how many of those reviews have been completed; and how many of those completed resulted in