Written Question·Home Office·UIN 50938
Asylum: LGBT+ People
Tabled: 8 May 2025
Answered: 15 May 2025
Question
Olivia Blake
Labour — Sheffield Hallam
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of banning asylum claims from foreign national offenders convicted of sexual offences in their country of origin on LGBTQI+ people from countries w
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe Government has introduced an amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill which will strengthen existing provisions by creating a new presumption that convictions for all sexual offences in Schedule 3 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (...
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