Written Question·Home Office·UIN 50229

Asylum: Syria

Tabled: 6 May 2025
Answered: 12 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Colum Eastwood

Social Democratic & Labour PartyFoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to develop new country information for Syria; and when she plans to resume processing asylum claims.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
As we explained at the time of announcing a pause on decision making, we have kept that pause under constant review. Without stable, objective information on which to base an accurate assessment of a claimant’s risk on return to Syria, we are unable to ma...

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