Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with Amnesty International and the Committee Against Torture on recent and proposed changes to the legislation on asylum seekers.

No legislation is planned in respect to asylum seekers.

A number of changes to arrangements for supporting failed asylum seekers have been included in the Immigration Bill published on 17 September.

Amnesty International sent a written response to the consultation on the proposals contained in the Immigration Bill and some of its representatives have met Home Office officials to discuss the proposals. The Committee Against Torture did not respond to the consultation and there have been no discussions on the proposals.