Written Question·Home Office·UIN 58410
Asylum: Personal Names
Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 17 June 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) asylum seekers and (b) failed asylum claimants that have used multiple identities or aliases while in the UK.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleAll 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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