Asylum
Commons · Question 93319 · Tabled 20 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Max Wilkinson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department will use to designate a country as safe.
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 25 Nov 2025
The asylum and returns policy statement sets out the intention to deal swiftly with unmeritorious protection claims that are made by nationals of manifestly safe countries in an attempt to frustrate their removal. In this context, an unmeritorious claim i...