Written Question·Home Office·UIN 93319

Asylum

Tabled: 20 November 2025
Answered: 25 November 2025

Question

Max Wilkinson

Liberal DemocratCheltenham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department will use to designate a country as safe.

Answer

Alex Norris
The asylum and returns policy statement sets out the intention to deal swiftly with unmeritorious protection claims that are made by nationals of manifestly safe countries in an attempt to frustrate their removal. In this context, an unmeritorious claim i...

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