Written Evidence Sep. 14 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policyFound: fighters” escaped the facility”22 and escapees may have been involved in subsequent ISIS attacks in Iraq
Written Evidence Sep. 14 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policyFound: 63 percent of British women now detained in NES may have been trafficked into or within Syria or Iraq
Oral Evidence Sep. 12 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policyFound: inquiry—that the invasion of Iraq created a lot of grievance and made it more likely that people
Oral Evidence Sep. 12 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s international counter-terrorism policyFound: inquiry—that the invasion of Iraq created a lot of grievance and made it more likely that people
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
We continue to monitor the human rights situation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Journalists and political activists continue to face intimidation and indefinite detention, and conservative norms and discriminatory laws harm women and girls and the LGBT+ community.
The UK remains committed to pressing the case for improvements in the human rights situation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and raises these issues regularly with senior figures.
Jun. 29 2023
Source Page: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information, Iraq and Myanmar (Burma) January 2023.Found: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information, Iraq and Myanmar (Burma) January 2023
Jun. 29 2023
Source Page: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information, Iraq and Myanmar (Burma) January 2023.Found: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information, Iraq and Myanmar (Burma) January 2023
Asked by: Jack Lopresti (Conservative - Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are deployed in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; and on what duties.
Answered by James Heappey
As of 13 June 2023 there were 154 UK Service personnel deployed to the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Those personnel are deployed under Op SHADER and provide mobility support and force protection to the Counter-DAESH coalition activity under Operation Inherent Resolve.
Found: Turkey also launched military actions against Kurdish groups in Iraq and Syria.
Asked by: Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will include Kurds from Iraq and Iran in the streamlined asylum process.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
From 23 February, legacy claims from nationals of Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Syria and Yemen will be considered through the Streamlined Asylum Process.
This is on the basis of their current high-grant rate of protection status (refugee status or humanitarian protection). All these nationalities have a grant rate of over 95% and over 100 grants of protection status in the year-ending September 2022. Please see Migration statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.
Upon arrival, all asylum seekers undergo a screening interview, as well as robust security checks in which they will provide biometric information.
Separate work is ongoing to more efficiently process all other asylum claims admitted to the UK asylum system awaiting consideration. To further accelerate decision making we will further drive productivity improvements by simplifying and modernising our system. This includes measures like shortening interviews, removing unnecessary interviews, making guidance simpler and more accessible, dealing with cases more swiftly where they can be certified as manifestly unfounded (e.g. Albania) and recruiting extra decision makers.