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What authorised immigration routes are available to people wanting to come to the UK for humanitarian reasons, how many people use them, and what are the government's plans for new schemes?
What authorised immigration routes are available to people wanting to come to the UK for humanitarian reasons, how many people use them, and what are the government's plans for new schemes?
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent reports of xenophobic violence against migrants and refugees in South Africa; what discussions they have had with (1) the government of South Africa, and (2) regional partners regarding the protection of affected individuals; and what support they are...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent reports of xenophobic violence against migrants and refugees in South Africa; what discussions they have had with (1) the government of South Africa, and (2) regional partners regarding the protection of affected individuals; and what support they are...
The UK is closely monitoring developments regarding reports of violence and intimidation directed at migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa. We are concerned by any incidents of xenophobic violence and welcome the South African Government's public condemnation of attacks on foreign nationals and its commitment to uphold the rule of law and protect all those within its borders. We continue to engage with the South African Government and regional partners regarding these developments, including on public safety and human rights, as appropriate.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguarding measures are required in contracts for asylum accommodation providers at MoD Barnham to protect female residents from violence, harassment, intimidation, and sexual exploitation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguarding measures are required in contracts for asylum accommodation providers at MoD Barnham to protect female residents from violence, harassment, intimidation, and sexual exploitation.
The Government is considering the use of MoD Barnham for asylum accommodation. No final decision has been made.
The Government recognises Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) as a serious national priority and remains committed to reducing incidents through policing, prevention, and safeguarding measures. If the site is taken forward, the safety and security of local communities, staff and those accommodated on site would be of the utmost importance, with appropriate security arrangements developed in close engagement with local police and partners.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK-France 'one-in-one-out' scheme will be ended after the conclusion of the pilot in October, and what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of safeguarding measures during the detention of vulnerable people including children under the scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK-France 'one-in-one-out' scheme will be ended after the conclusion of the pilot in October, and what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of safeguarding measures during the detention of vulnerable people including children under the scheme.
Our landmark UK-France returns deal means we can send those who arrive on small boats straight back to France – striking at the heart of the gangs’ business model. This has seen us deport more than 1,000 illegal migrants from British soil.
The UK-France returns arrangement remains a pilot scheme and has been extended until October 2026, allowing it to be further scaled and tested over the peak summer period. There is no single silver bullet to end small boat crossings, and this pilot is only one element of our partnership with France, within our wider strategy. I continue to work with my European counterparts to build a comprehensive approach to control migration between the EU and the UK.
The Government takes the welfare and safety of those in its care seriously. Each case considered under the pilot is assessed on an individual basis, including consideration of safeguarding, vulnerability and suitability for removal. Appropriate safeguards are in place, and individuals are able to make representations before any removal takes place.
Where an individual is detained, the suitability of ongoing detention is regularly reviewed, and where there is no legal barrier, removal will proceed.
Individuals are not removed to France where their age is in dispute, given the terms of the Treaty sets out those removed will be individuals who have been determined to be an adult. Removing minors to France is explicitly prohibited under Article 4(2)(d) of the Agreement.
We will continue to work with French authorities to ensure swift, lawful processing under the Agreement and to maintain public safety. We are continuously monitoring and evaluating our pilot, alongside the procedures in place to deliver it.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to proposals to house asylum seekers at RAF Barnham, what steps he plans to take to help ensure the safety of women and girls in the area.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to proposals to house asylum seekers at RAF Barnham, what steps he plans to take to help ensure the safety of women and girls in the area.
The Government recognises Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) as a national priority and remains committed to reducing incidents through policing, prevention, and safeguarding measures. If the site is taken forward, the safety and security of local communities, staff and those accommodated on site would be of the utmost importance, with appropriate security arrangements developed in close engagement with local police and partners.
The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026 would make some changes to asylum and human rights rules as announced in November 2025, as well as amending modern slavery legislation.
The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026 would make some changes to asylum and human rights rules as announced in November 2025, as well as amending modern slavery legislation.
Letter dated 02/07/2026 from Alex Norris MP to all MPs regarding the Immigration and Asylum Bill: the Independent Immigration Appeals Authority, the application of Article 8 of the ECHR, the concept of “Core Protection”, the recovery of asylum support costs, modern slavery. 5p.
Letter dated 02/07/2026 from Alex Norris MP to all MPs regarding the Immigration and Asylum Bill: the Independent Immigration Appeals Authority, the application of Article 8 of the ECHR, the concept of “Core Protection”, the recovery of asylum support costs, modern slavery. 5p.
I. Updated Universal Credit Guidance 2026 [update of previous guidance deposited Nov 2025, DEP2025-0769] (210 docs. plus file list) II. Letter dated 15/06/2026 from Stephen Timms MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. Annex (file list). 7p
I. Updated Universal Credit Guidance 2026 [update of previous guidance deposited Nov 2025, DEP2025-0769] (210 docs. plus file list) II. Letter dated 15/06/2026 from Stephen Timms MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. Annex (file list). 7p
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguarding processes are in place to (a) identify and (b) protect (i) unaccompanied and (ii) age-disputed children under the one in and one out policy.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguarding processes are in place to (a) identify and (b) protect (i) unaccompanied and (ii) age-disputed children under the one in and one out policy.
Unaccompanied children are not subject to the agreement between the United Kingdom and France on the prevention of dangerous journeys, also known as the one-in, one-out policy.
Upon arrival, where an individual claims to be a child without any credible and clear documentary evidence of age, and where there is reason to doubt their claimed age, immigration officers are required to make an initial age decision to determine whether the individual should be treated as a child or an adult. This is an important first step to prevent individuals who are clearly an adult or child from being subjected unnecessarily to a more substantive age assessment and ensure individuals are routed to the correct adult or child process.
The ‘Assessing Age’ guidance details the Home Office’s age assessment policy for immigration purposes. It provides that immigration officers may only treat an individual as an adult where they have no credible and clear documentary evidence proving their age, and two members of Home Office staff independently assess that their physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggest that the individual is ‘significantly over 18’.
This is a deliberately high threshold where the principle of the benefit of the doubt is key and if that threshold is not met, but there remains doubt about the individual’s age, they will be treated as a child and transferred to a local authority for further consideration of their age. This often involves a further, more comprehensive ‘Merton-compliant’ age assessment. This approach to initial decisions on age has been considered by the Supreme Court in BF (Eritrea) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 38 and held to be lawful.
Where individuals are assessed to be significantly over 18, they are able to approach local authorities for further age assessment if they disagree with the Home Office’s decision. Individuals also have access to legal representation and can make legal challenges to age assessments. Individuals are not removed to France where their age is in dispute.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the administrative and staffing resources required within the Home Office to review the protection needs of refugees at 30-month intervals.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the administrative and staffing resources required within the Home Office to review the protection needs of refugees at 30-month intervals.
We want to encourage refugees to integrate more fully into the communities providing them sanctuary and we will encourage refugees to switch out of the Core Protection route wherever possible into a new, bespoke work and study route. In addition to the wider the socio-economic advantages, this will also enable them to access family reunion and settlement rights with new fees and conditions in accordance with the rules of that route.
We are committed to ensuring our policies are sustainable and do not place unnecessary burdens on the taxpayer, and this policy is no different. In terms of resources and processing, only those who do remain on Core Protection will have their protection needs regularly reviewed. Reviews will be targeted based on objective country information, and any other new information that comes to light, allowing us to make the most efficient use of resources. We will continue to monitor staffing levels and will deploy our workforce flexibly subject to business needs as we have done in the past.
The approach to reviewing status will be efficient and targeted; we will reassess where country conditions or personal circumstances have changed significantly.
To do this we will build on the efficiencies that have already seen record levels of initial decisions being made, including use of AI, such as our policy search tool or case summarisation which are already assisting asylum decision makers.
I. Updated Universal Credit Guidance 2025 [update of previous guidance deposited June 2025, DEP2025-0364] (209 docs. plus file list) II. Letter dated 24/11/2025 from Stephen Timms MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. Annex (file list). 7p
I. Updated Universal Credit Guidance 2025 [update of previous guidance deposited June 2025, DEP2025-0364] (209 docs. plus file list) II. Letter dated 24/11/2025 from Stephen Timms MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. Annex (file list). 7p
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to help protect (a) female and (b) child asylum seekers against (i) sexual violence and (ii) other abuse in hotel accommodation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to help protect (a) female and (b) child asylum seekers against (i) sexual violence and (ii) other abuse in hotel accommodation.
Tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a top priority for this Government and our manifesto included the mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
The Home Office will also go further than before to deliver a cross-government transformative approach to halve violence against women and girls, underpinned by a new VAWG strategy to be published this year.
The Home Office works carefully to ensure that the needs and vulnerabilities of those residing in asylum accommodation are identified and considered, including those needs related to mental health and trauma and will use every tool available to target perpetrators and address the root causes of abuse and violence wherever it occurs, including in asylum accommodation.
This government also state our commitment to a gender sensitive asylum system and that we carefully consider the vulnerabilities of all those in our care, which includes previous trauma.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that recording an asylum claimant’s self-declared age does not place adults at risk of being accommodated with children.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that recording an asylum claimant’s self-declared age does not place adults at risk of being accommodated with children.
The age of a person arriving in the UK is normally established from the documents with which they have travelled, but many do not have any definitive documentary evidence to support their claimed age.
There are clear safeguarding issues which arise if a child is inadvertently treated as an adult, and equally if an adult is wrongly accepted as a child and placed in accommodation with children to whom they could present a risk.
Where there is reason to doubt an individual’s claimed age, immigration officers are required to make an initial age decision to determine whether the individual should be treated as a child or an adult. This is an important first step to prevent individuals who are clearly an adult or child from being subjected unnecessarily to a more substantive age assessment and ensure individuals are routed to the correct adult or child process for assessing their asylum or immigration claim.
If there is doubt whether a claimant is an adult or child, they will be referred to a local authority’s Children’s Services Department who are then able to either undertake an age assessment themselves or can refer into the National Age Assessment Board for further consideration of their age in the interests of safeguarding. Regardless of age, where issues relating to safeguarding or community safety are raised, referrals will be made to the relevant authorities.
Lords committee stage fifth day. Clauses 42 to 48 agreed to.
Lords committee stage fifth day. Clauses 42 to 48 agreed to.
Moved by
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
136: After Clause 41, insert the following new Clause—
“Amendment to section 117C of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
For section 117C(5) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 substitute—
“(5) Exception 2 applies where C has a genuine and subsisting relationship with a qualifying...
Moved by
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
136: After Clause 41, insert the following new Clause—
“Amendment to section 117C of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
For section 117C(5) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 substitute—
“(5) Exception 2 applies where C has a genuine and subsisting relationship with a qualifying...
Noble Lords will note, being terribly observant, that I am not my noble friend Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. Around about now, I hope, she is emerging from theatre, having had an operation on her foot. She will not be in the House for a few weeks, so I am afraid...
Noble Lords will note, being terribly observant, that I am not my noble friend Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. Around about now, I hope, she is emerging from theatre, having had an operation on her foot. She will not be in the House for a few weeks, so I am afraid...
My Lords, I will speak on the two amendments together. Section 117C, on the deportation of foreign criminals, which the noble Baroness is seeking to amend, provides at subsection (1) that this deportation is in the public interest. I suggest that the well-being of children is a matter of public...
My Lords, I will speak on the two amendments together. Section 117C, on the deportation of foreign criminals, which the noble Baroness is seeking to amend, provides at subsection (1) that this deportation is in the public interest. I suggest that the well-being of children is a matter of public...
My Lords, I too wish a swift and full recovery to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. Her colleague has ably set out the thinking behind this amendment. I suspect I am more sympathetic to it than some members of the Committee, but I suggest the following additional observation...
My Lords, I too wish a swift and full recovery to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. Her colleague has ably set out the thinking behind this amendment. I suspect I am more sympathetic to it than some members of the Committee, but I suggest the following additional observation...
I too send my best wishes to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. We shall miss, for a temporary period, her distinctive contribution to this House.
I am puzzled by this amendment, essentially for the reasons my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti mentions. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human...
I too send my best wishes to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. We shall miss, for a temporary period, her distinctive contribution to this House.
I am puzzled by this amendment, essentially for the reasons my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti mentions. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human...