Written Question·Home Office·UIN 56395

Asylum: Employment

Tabled: 2 June 2025

Answered: 5 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Dr Simon Opher

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 8506 on Asylum: Employment, whether she plans to reduce the waiting time from 12 to six months for asylum seekers to apply for permission to work.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office’s priority remains to ensure that employers and employees who play by the rules are not undercut by people working illegally, or by unscrupulous employers exploiting their labour.We have repeatedly resisted calls to relax our policy positi...

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