11th Special Report - Forced displacement in Africa: ‘Anchors not Walls’: Government Response to the Committee’s Tenth Report

This is the government's response, published 27 June 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says it fully agrees with 22 recommendations, partially agrees with 9 and disagrees with 3, with all recommendations addressed to DFID "accepted or partially accepted".

• It agrees that DFID should push for robust accountability at international level, saying it is "actively involved" in developing indicators to track progress under the Global Compact on Refugees.
• On the Committee's request for annual reports from March 2020, it partially agrees, saying it "would propose sharing our reporting with the Committee" from existing Global Compact mechanisms to avoid duplication.
• It disagrees that asylum seekers' right to work should be urgently reassessed; it says that although there are "no current plans to change" policy, the Home Secretary wished to review it and work is ongoing.
• It disagrees on a national migration and forced displacement strategy, stating "We do not need an additional national strategy", and on increasing resettlement to 10,000 places a year, saying it has "no plans to increase this at the present time".

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