Question follow-through · 96587
Asylum: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that LGBTQ+ refugees will not be forcibly returned to countries where they are likely to face persecution.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
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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
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that LGBTQ+ refugees will not be forcibly returned to countries where they are likely to face persecution.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
All asylum and human rights claims including those based on sexual orientation and gender identity are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the backgro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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