Recommendation 50

If the cap is a ‘soft’ cap or quota for the number of refugees the UK will volunteer to resettle, either from third states as part of cooperation programmes with international partners or as part of country-specific schemes, we are satisfied that such a cap would not itself contravene the UK’s international law obligations. However, a ‘hard’ cap which sought to invalidate or reject the nth+1 asylum application made in the UK’s territory on the basis of a domestic quota would be incompatible with the UK’s international law obligations.