Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 24251

Asylum: Rwanda

Tabled: 30 April 2024

Answered: 7 May 2024

Named Day

Question

Stephen Kinnock

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Lady Chief Justice and (b) Senior President of Tribunals on the deployment of judges to deal with cases specifically related to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Imm

Answer

The Illegal Migration Act 2023 (IMA) provides for First-tier Tribunal judges to be deployed to sit in the Upper Tribunal to hear IMA appeals. As the Lord Chancellor set out in his Written Ministerial Statement of 16 January 2024: “The judiciary have ident...

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