Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57124

Asylum

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Sarah Pochin

Reform UKRuncorn and Helsby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what background checks her Department conducts on irregular migrants applying for asylum.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic an...

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