Immigration Act 2016

(asked on 30th June 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend or give effect to the provisions in the Immigration Act 2016 in respect of (a) residential tenancies, (b) transfer of responsibility for unaccompanied children and (c) limitations on local authority support for people who have been refused asylum, adult migrant care leavers and other migrants.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 5th July 2016

The Immigration Act 2016 received Royal Assent on 12th May 2016. Provisions in the Act that create a mechanism to transfer responsibility for unaccompanied asylum seeking children from one local authority to another in England came into force on 31st May. Announcements about implementation of the other provisions mentioned and extensions to other parts of the UK will be made in due course once discussions with the Devolved Administrations have taken place. There has been no correspondence with Ministers of the Scottish Government relating to the Immigration Act 2016 since the Act received Royal Assent.

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