Written Question·Home Office·UIN 13183

Immigration: Georgia

Tabled: 8 November 2024
Answered: 14 November 2024
Named Day

Question

Pete Wishart

Scottish National PartyPerth and Kinross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to withdraw Georgia from the list of safe states as defined in immigration legislation.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Section 80AA of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as amended and inserted by section 59 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023) provides for a list of generally safe states for whom asylum and human rights claims would be declared inadmissible;...

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