Question follow-through · 61438
Asylum: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that questions asked during asylum interviews are (a) appropriate, (b) relevant and (c) not misapplied from other (i) religious and (ii) cultural contexts.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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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
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that questions asked during asylum interviews are (a) appropriate, (b) relevant and (c) not misapplied from other (i) religious and (ii) cultural contexts.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
All asylum claims made in the UK are carefully considered on their individual merits, and the guidance provided to decision makers when undertaking interviews is published online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conducting-the-asylum-intervi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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