Written Question·Home Office·UIN 50938

Asylum: LGBT+ People

Tabled: 8 May 2025
Answered: 15 May 2025

Question

Olivia Blake

LabourSheffield 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 Eagle
The 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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