Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department takes steps to communicate with the country of origin of asylum seekers to verify the validity of asylum claims.

Every asylum claim admitted to the UK asylum system is carefully considered on its individual merits by assessing all the evidence provided by the claimant against a background of published country information and a wide range of recognised and publicly available sources.

In accordance with our obligations under the Refugee Convention and domestic law, we do not disclose information about an individual’s asylum claim to their home country or seek information in a way that could expose them, or any family who remain in that country, to serious risk. We take any breach of this principle extremely seriously.