Question follow-through · 3093
Asylum: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure consistency in how police forces handle safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents outside the UK.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure consistency in how police forces handle safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents outside the UK.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
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3 Jun 2026
Answer published
Although police forces are operationally independent, the Home Office is part of a national coordination network with policing which manages the impact of immigration on policing, including identifying and mitigating risks from asylum placement.There are ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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