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Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Seventh Special Report - Equality and the UK asylum process: Government response to the Committee’s Fourth Report

Published 19 September 2023

Women and Equalities Committee Equality and the UK asylum process Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to Fourth Report - Equality and the UK asylum process.

This is the government's response, published 19 September 2023.

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

The government's response sets out its position recommendation by recommendation, accepting few of the Committee's calls for change and relying on existing policy, safeguards and reviews.

  • On the Country Policy and Information Team, it considers that CPIT "can maintain and update high quality CPINs in a timely manner" and that "a discrete review of its performance is not necessary".
  • On the 2019-20 internal review of sexual orientation and gender identity claims, it states: "we will not be publishing the main findings of the internal review".
  • On asylum support, it does not consider that aligning payments with a proportion of Universal Credit "is appropriate". It reports an interim rise from £45 to £47.39 per week from 17 July, and says this year's review "is due to conclude later this year".
  • On legal aid, it does "not accept the Committee's suggestion that there is insufficient access to legal advice and representation". It says the Ministry of Justice is undertaking a Review of Civil Legal Aid that will consider immigration.

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