Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Safe Routes Debate

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Department: Home Office

Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Safe Routes

Baroness Chakrabarti Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd November 2023

(5 months, 3 weeks ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
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I will certainly confirm that France is a safe country. How the French asylum system works is, I am afraid, well beyond my knowledge.

Baroness Chakrabarti Portrait Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab)
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Returning to the issue of children in hotels, last summer, the High Court found Home Office practice in relation to housing vulnerable unaccompanied children in hotels to be derelict. Can the Minister inform the House what the response is to that High Court decision?

Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
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I have tried to by saying how we are working with the councils that are specifically involved in those decisions. If I can get any more details together, I will definitely come back to the noble Baroness on that.