Written Question·Home Office·UIN 44838

Asylum: Eritrea

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 25 April 2025

Question

Tim Roca

LabourMacclesfield

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether people claim to be from Eritrea to improve their chances of asylum being granted.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office is committed to ensuring that the asylum system is not open to abuse. All 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, securit...

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