Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that refugees in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh who are eligible to apply for leave to remain in the UK are able to access the (a) identity and (b) health checks required for that application process.

Visa Application Centres and approved medical screening centres in Dhaka and Sylhet provide applicants with facilities to provide the required information for visa applications.

The Government of Bangladesh does not currently permit refugees living in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to leave the camps either for the purpose of making a visa application or to leave Bangladesh to travel to a third country.

The British High Commission has raised this issue with the Government of Bangladesh, but the Government of Bangladesh position remains unchanged.