Asylum: Applications
(asked on 14th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether people rescued by (a) Royal Fleet Auxiliary and (b) Royal Navy vessels are able to claim for asylum in the UK if flagged in international waters.
This question was answered on 17th March 2016
The UK complies with all of its international obligations. The UK is not obliged to consider any asylum claim made on UK flagged vessels, including those of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the Royal Navy, outside of the UK's territorial waters.