Written Question·Home Office·UIN 58569
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
Tabled: 10 June 2025
Answered: 18 June 2025
Question
Sir John Hayes
Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that the people manning the engines of asylum boats are refused asylum.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleUnder existing legislation, an individual convicted of a particularly serious crime, resulting in a custodial sentence of 12 months or more, and who is considered a danger to the UK, will be denied asylum and will be considered for removal from the UK.Wit...
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