Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her proposal to transport asylum seekers to Rwanda of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

There is nothing in the UN Refugee Convention which prevents removal to a safe country.

Rwanda is a State Party to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the seven core UN Human Rights Conventions. It is a fundamentally safe and secure country with respect for the rule of law.

The Migration and Economic Migration Partnership agreement requires Rwanda to process claims in accordance with the UN Refugee Convention, national and international human rights laws, and ensure protection from inhuman and degrading treatment or for those recognised as having a protection need, from being returned to the place they originally fled.