Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the grant rate for asylum applications at her proposed offshore processing centres in Rwanda.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her proposals to offshore refugees to Rwanda will only apply to single men.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Rwanda published 14 April 2022, when the monitoring group will be established and whether its findings and recommendations will be published before this House.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the plans to offshore refugees to Rwanda, whether people arriving in the UK because they have family members in that country will be considered eligible to be sent to Rwanda.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of her proposals to offshore refugees to Rwanda on family reunion as a safe route of entry to the UK.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of her proposals to offshore refugees to Rwanda will have on refugee (a) women and (b) children.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that children mistakenly assessed as adults are not sent to Rwanda during the pilot stage of their offshoring agreement.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure that (a) women and (b) people that are assessed to be vulnerable will not be offshored under their plans to offshore refugees to Rwanda.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to monitor whether political extremists are traveling from the UK to fight in Ukraine.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Government’s priority is the safety and security of the UK and the people who live here. It would not be appropriate for reasons of national security to comment on whether or not action is taken to monitor individuals.
Depending on the nature of activity and the circumstances in which it was carried out, travel to engage in overseas conflict could potentially give rise to offences under UK law, including terrorism and war crimes. Where individuals do return, they should expect to be investigated and, where there is evidence that crimes have been committed, they should expect to face prosecution. Any decision to prosecute will be a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) - both the police and CPS are operationally independent of Government.