Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role of UK courts in determining the (1) treatment, and (2) applications of asylum seekers, who make their application in the United Kingdom but are relocated to Rwanda under the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda.

Those who are relocated to Rwanda will have had their asylum application declared inadmissible to the UK system and therefore it will not be substantively considered by the UK. Anyone who it is proposed to relocate will have a chance to raise reasons why they should not be removed, seek legal advice and raise a legal challenge in the UK system before they are relocated.

Once an individual is relocated, Rwanda will process their asylum claim under the Rwandan jurisdiction and will take responsibility for supporting them.

As set out in paragraph 15 of the MoU governing the Migration and Economic Development Partnership, an independent Monitoring Committee will monitor the entire relocation process and compliance with assurances in the MoU, including the processing of asylum claims and provision of support in Rwanda.