Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, when asylum is granted to Eritrean nationals, it is done after consideration of the human rights situation in that country.

All asylum claims from Eritrean nationals are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, and taking into account a wide range of reliable and balanced information on the human rights situation in Eritrea.