Written Question·Home Office·UIN 17915
Asylum: Sri Lanka
Tabled: 4 December 2024
Answered: 9 December 2024
Named DayQuestion
Nick Timothy
Conservative — West Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Diego Garcia have been excluded from travel to the UK on the grounds of (a) their criminal convictions and (b) ongoing criminal investigations.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleMigrants with criminal convictions, charges, or subject to ongoing investigations were not in scope for the recent transfer. We do not comment on individual cases.