Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of the introduction in May 2022 of a visa requirement for all travel from El Salvador to the UK on the availability to Salvadorean nationals of safe and legal routes to asylum in the UK.

The UK has a proud record of providing protection for people who need it. But as the Prime Minister set out in his recent statement to Parliament (13^th December), we must be able to control our borders to ensure that the only people who come here come through safe and legal routes. Those who need international protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach. This is the fastest route to safety, and applies to all countries, regardless of their visa requirement.