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Asylum: Sri Lanka

Commons · Question 20993 · Tabled 18 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 7 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Chris Philp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 18968 on Asylum: Sri Lanka, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of relocating to St Helena asylum seekers who have trave

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 7 Jan 2025

The specific purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding with St Helena was to deal with the risk of further migrants attempting to travel to the British Indian Ocean Territory, prior to the sovereignty agreement with Mauritius being formally completed. Th...