Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57125

Asylum: Vetting

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Sarah Pochin

Reform UKRuncorn and Helsby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Police National Computer checks have been carried out on all asylum applicants in the last 10 years.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic an...

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