Written Question·Home Office·UIN 58408

Asylum: Personal Names

Tabled: 9 June 2025

Answered: 17 June 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of name changes by asylum seekers on (a) national security, (b) immigration enforcement and (c) criminal justice proceedings.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

All asylum claimants are subject to the Home Office’s mandatory security checks to establish and verify their identity, and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to...

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