Written Question·Home Office·UIN 62193

Asylum: EU Countries

Tabled: 24 June 2025

Answered: 2 July 2025

Question

Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist Party — Belfast East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of allowing applications to be dealt with in the UK for asylum applicants who have been granted asylum in another European country.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

Where a person already has asylum or subsidiary protection in another European country, the person’s claim will usually be declared inadmissible (meaning that their asylum claim will not be substantively considered in the UK), and they will be removed to ...

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