Question follow-through · 76586

Asylum: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the criminalisation of asylum-seeking survivors of violence against women and girls.

answeredKirsty BlackmanHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 11 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 16 Sept 2025
Answer: 16 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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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

11 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the criminalisation of asylum-seeking survivors of violence against women and girls.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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16 Sept 2025
Answer published
Asylum-seeking victims of VAWG must be treated as victims, first and foremost. We recognise the challenges asylum-seeking victims of VAWG can face and the VAWG Strategy will include more detail on our approach to criminalisation of victims of VAWG. It is ...

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