Asylum: Employment
Commons · Question 56395 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Simon Opher
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 8506 on Asylum: Employment, whether she plans to reduce the waiting time from 12 to six months for asylum seekers to apply for permission to work.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 5 Jun 2025
The Home Office’s priority remains to ensure that employers and employees who play by the rules are not undercut by people working illegally, or by unscrupulous employers exploiting their labour.We have repeatedly resisted calls to relax our policy positi...