Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57126
Asylum: Vetting
Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025
Question
Sarah Pochin
Reform UK — Runcorn and Helsby
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken Watchlist and Information Control Unit checks on all asylum applications in the last 10 years.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleWhen 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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