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Asylum: European Convention on Human Rights

Commons · Question 92088 · Tabled 18 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 25 Nov 2025

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Asked by Euan Stainbank

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Statement on Asylum Policy of 17 of November, Official Report column 509, which international partners have raised similar concerns about the inability to apply the public intere

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Answered by Alex Norris, 25 Nov 2025

A number of Council of Europe members have expressed concern over the interpretation and application of the ECHR in the context of migration. An open letter of nine Council of Europe countries of 22 May 2025 called for "discussion about how internati...