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Immigration: Family Indefinite Leave to Remain

Whether, in deciding whether to repeat the family indefinite leave to remain exercise of 2003, they will take account of the likely impact of removing children who have become fully integrated into British society, or who have no knowledge of their countries of origin.
Asked by
Lord Hylton (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 June 2007
Reference
4306; 693 c161WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Family Indefinite Leave to Remain

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will repeat the family indefinite leave to remain exercise of 2003; and
Asked by
Lord Hylton (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 June 2007
Reference
4305; 693 c161WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Country-specific Guidance

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will amend the country-specific operational guidance for all relevant countries to reflect the recent changes made to the country guidance relating to Sudan, which requires that an asylum claim should be decided on the basis of the personal circumstances and characteristics of the applicant which...
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
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Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 June 2007
Reference
4466; 693 c161WA
House
House of Lords
Iraq: Refugees

How many Iraqi asylum seekers have been granted (a) asylum, and (b) leave to remain in the United Kingdom each year since 2003, and how these figures compare with those of other European Union nations.
Asked by
Earl of Sandwich (Crossbench)
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Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 June 2007
Reference
4440; 693 c150-2WA
House
House of Lords
Zimbabwe: Asylum Seekers

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether it is their practice to send failed asylum-seekers back to Zimbabwe by train, as proposed in the notice dated 3 April 2007 served on the person whose Home Office reference is C1090019; and, if that notice was wrong, whether they will cancel it.
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
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Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 June 2007
Reference
3845; 693 c148WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Unaccompanied Minors

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scotland of Asthal on 19 February (WA 186), whether they will give the uniform resource locator (URL) of the consultation document on proposals for the reform of the immigration and support system for unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 June 2007
Reference
4093; 693 c105WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Breastfeeding Women

asked Her Majesty's Government:What advice they have given to local authorities about preventing destitution and homelessness of failed asylum-seeking mothers with small children and about the separation of such a mother from a breastfeeding infant.
Asked by
Baroness Cumberlege (Conservative)
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Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 June 2007
Reference
4178; 693 c104WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Clinical Judgments

asked Her Majesty's Government:What steps they have taken to ensure that, in evaluating asylum applications, case owners do not make a clinical judgement of their own in assessing claims about medical conditions but rely on the objective evidence before them and that, in assessing whether a case should remain within...
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
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Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 June 2007
Reference
4120; 693 c41WA
House
House of Lords
Border and Immigration Agency

asked Her Majesty's Government:What training about the cultural norms and practices that apply in the countries from which most asylum applicants come is given to interviewers and interpreters working for the Border and Immigration Agency.
Asked by
Lord Hylton (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 June 2007
Reference
3993; 693 c25-6WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Backlog of Cases

asked Her Majesty's Government:What progress they are making in reducing the backlog of older asylum applications; and how many cases have been outstanding for more than one year, broken down by annual groups.
Asked by
Lord Hylton (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 June 2007
Reference
4168; 693 c40WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Deportation

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scotland on 8 January (WA 23), whether the average costs of deportation appeals before the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal include the costs of asylum appeals (whether brought against deport decisions or non-deport decisions); what is the average cost of an...
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 June 2007
Reference
3876; 692 c207WA
House
House of Lords
Asylum Seekers: Verification of Claims
My Lords, I remind my noble friend that I cannot comment on that case because it is subject to an appeal; therefore, it would be improper for me so to do. However, I hope that I will be able to reassure him that the new asylum process that we have put in place does in fact do all that he would wish. It heightens and improves the quality, it has enhanced the training, and it ensures that one case worker looks at a case from beginning to end; we believe that the sort of review that my noble friend described has been undertaken and are developing a system that now has far higher quality.
Answered by
Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2007
Reference
692 c1020
House
House of Lords
Asylum Seekers: Verification of Claims
My Lords, I cannot comment on the individual case, which is under consideration by the courts. The Government are committed to meeting their obligations under the refugee convention and have a long history of offering protection to those in genuine need. Accurate, well considered decisions are a key to a robust, fair and firm asylum policy. That is why we are committed to raising the quality of asylum decisions.
Answered by
Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2007
Reference
692 c1020
House
House of Lords
Asylum Seekers: Verification of Claims
My Lords, the right reverend Prelate will know that individuals, at any stage during their application, are able to bring forward fresh information on which determination can be made. If there is such fresh information, consideration can be given to it, but we do not believe that our current policy is either unfair or in any way unjust. It enables people who have valid claims to make them and allows those claims to be properly interrogated.
Answered by
Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2007
Reference
692 c1021-2
House
House of Lords
Asylum Seekers: Verification of Claims
My Lords, I reassure the noble Baroness that we are doing everything that we can to ensure that the information that we get on in-country positions is as robust as possible. We are deferring enforced returns of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe until the ongoing litigation is finally resolved, so returns are not occurring at the moment. I certainly assure the noble Baroness that we take very seriously the need to preserve our high reputation in relation to asylum seekers, giving them appropriate succour and ensuring that our system is as robust and fair as we can possibly make it.
Answered by
Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2007
Reference
692 c1022
House
House of Lords
Asylum Seekers: Verification of Claims
My Lords, I have tried to differentiate between the active case and the point of law. The point of law is subject to open debate, but I have tried to explain that I cannot talk about the facts of the case and I hope that all noble Lords will adhere to that procedure, because that is what we are all bound to do in this House.
Answered by
Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2007
Reference
692 c1021
House
House of Lords
Asylum Seekers: Verification of Claims
My Lords, I think that the noble Lord is referring to the recent case of Re AH and others in relation to Sudan. The court found that the Darfuri would not be at risk of persecution or other ill-treatment in Khartoum, but, in its interpretation of a legal test on refugee law, the court found that it would be ““unduly harsh”” to expect a non-Arab Darfuri to relocate to Khartoum, because they were ill-equipped for city living and the conditions which they would be likely to face in Khartoum. That issue is subject to appeal. We do not believe that it is right that someone should be considered to be a refugee simply because, although they could safely relocate within their own country to a place where they would not be at risk of persecution, they would, by doing so, face a drop in living standards to a level experienced by many of their compatriots. That is the issue of law that is subject to appeal.
Answered by
Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2007
Reference
692 c1020-1
House
House of Lords
Asylum Seekers: Verification of Claims
Whether they propose to revise their process of verifying asylum claims in light of the case of Darfuri refugee Shoman Ahmed Mohammed so as to prevent individuals with valid claims being returned to their homelands under threat of torture or death.
Asked by
Lord Janner of Braunstone (Labour)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
5 June 2007
Reference
692 c1020
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Caseholders

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scotland of Asthal on 30 April (WA 184), what is the normal range of the number of cases held at any one time by those caseholders of the Border and Immigration Agency who deal exclusively with asylum applications.
Asked by
Lord Hylton (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 May 2007
Reference
3527; 692 c132WA
House
House of Lords
Immigration: Sudan

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether Mr Mohammed Abdulhadi Ali or any other asylum applicants from Darfur were deported to Khartoum on 27 March despite reports that to do so would expose them to risk of death or torture; and, if not, what plans they have for Mr Ali and any other...
Asked by
Lord Hylton (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 May 2007
Reference
3093; 692 c132WA
House
House of Lords