Written Question·Home Office·UIN 20993

Asylum: Sri Lanka

Tabled: 18 December 2024

Answered: 7 January 2025

Named Day

Question

Chris Philp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 18968 on Asylum: Sri Lanka, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of relocating to St Helena asylum seekers who have trave

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The specific purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding with St Helena was to deal with the risk of further migrants attempting to travel to the British Indian Ocean Territory, prior to the sovereignty agreement with Mauritius being formally completed. Th...

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