Written Question·Home Office·UIN 64736
Asylum: Criminal Records
Tabled: 3 July 2025
Answered: 11 July 2025
Question
Esther McVey
Conservative — Tatton
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ascertain previous offences of people claiming asylum in the UK.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleAll asylum claimants are subject to mandatory security checks to confirm their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. For further information regarding security checks during the...
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