Asylum: Rwanda

(asked on 30th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the compatibility of her policy to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda under the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership with the UK's obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 7th July 2022

The Government has assessed that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership between the UK and Rwanda fully complies with all national and international law, including the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights.

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