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Asylum: Deportation

Commons · Question 93321 · Tabled 20 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 26 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Max Wilkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department is using to determine if a third country is safe to deport migrants.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 26 Nov 2025

The criteria to designate all, or part, of a country as safe for the purpose of certification of protection or human rights claims as clearly unfounded is set out in s94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002:(5)The Secretary of State may by ...