Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK was given an opportunity to make representations to the European Court of Human Rights before an interim measure was granted by that Court preventing the removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda for consideration there of their asylum claims.

The European Court of Human Rights granted last-minute interim measures which prohibited the removal of three individuals set to be relocated to Rwanda on 14 June 2022. The UK was not given an opportunity to make representations to the European Court of Human Rights before the measure was granted. However, the Government is seeking greater transparency on the reasons for their judgment.