Question follow-through · 44240

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32013 on Asylum, whether she has commissioned any reports on expanding (a) safe and (b) legal routes for people seeking asylum within the last twelve

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 8 Apr 2025
Answer: 14 Apr 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32013 on Asylum, whether she has commissioned any reports on expanding (a) safe and (b) legal routes for people seeking asylum within the last twelve
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2025
Answer published
This country will always play our part, alongside others, to help those fleeing war and persecution, but we need a proper system where rules are enforced.The UK welcomes refugees through our global resettlement schemes which include the UK Resettlement Sc...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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