International displacement strategy
Lack of a holistic view and overarching strategy for addressing drivers of displacement and establishing effective prevention mechanisms.
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#9 - Commission a holistic review of displacement drivers and solutions, reporting findings within one year.
The FCDO should commission a holistic review of the drivers of and solutions to displacement, reporting its findings to the Committee within one year of the publication of this report. (Recommendation, Paragraph 59)
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Leo Barber
Vulnerable children can access online suicide material, and international service providers’ jurisdictional stance can obstruct coronial investigations, hindering efforts to prevent future deaths.
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#94 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The Illegal Migration Act 2023 (IMA) introduced significant changes to the UK’s asylum system. In summary, it imposed a duty on the Secretary of State to make arrangements to remove any person who enters the UK irregularly and has not come directly from a territory where their life and liberty was threatened (which includes anyone who has stopped...
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#5 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
The Department is unprepared for the challenges the UK’s exit from the EU presents to its immigration enforcement operations. The Department relies on cooperation with EU partners to support its international operations, including the return of foreign national offenders and individuals who arrive in the UK illegally via EU transport hubs. It would like this cooperation to continue...
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Lee Brown
There's a lack of emergency access protocols for consular officers to detained British nationals, especially those in mental health crisis. FCDO travel advice is insufficient regarding the specific consequences of detention in Dubai.
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#120 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
In relation to Georgia, the Refugee Council notes that “in December 2024 the current Government sanctioned five Georgian officials for serious human rights violations. This included the Minister for Interior and the Director of the Tbilisi Police Department. The press release issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office at the time noted that ‘UN experts have condemned...
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#13 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
We share the concerns of our predecessor Committee that, whilst the states listed may be considered safe in general, this does not guarantee the safety of all individuals from these states, especially those who are members of particular social groups facing persecution. It must be possible for such individuals who face a real risk of persecution upon return...
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#156 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
conclusion Exclusions from the protections of the Refugee Convention are permitted in circumstances where individuals have committed “particularly serious crimes”. We acknowledge that the exclusion of individuals who pose a danger to the community is an important measure, and we support the Government’s intention to ensure that dangerous sex offenders cannot benefit from the protections of the Refugee...
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#123 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
recommendation We share the concerns of our predecessor Committee that, whilst the states listed may be considered safe in general, this does not guarantee the safety of all individuals from these states, especially those who are members of particular social groups facing persecution. It must be possible for such individuals who face a real risk of persecution upon...
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#112 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Article 13 of ECAT requires state parties to provide a “recovery and reflection period” of at least 30 days to potential VOTs, i.e. when there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person concerned is a victim of trafficking. During this period, the UK must not enforce any expulsion order against them and must authorise the persons concerned...
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#105 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
It also mandates that, unless there are ‘compelling circumstances’, non- British victims would be disqualified from protection if they have been sentenced to a period of imprisonment of any length. They will be denied a recovery and reflection period and denied limited leave to remain in the UK, and may therefore be removed from the UK. This significantly...
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#92 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The Safety of Rwanda Bill sought to establish through legislative means that Rwanda was a safe country despite the Supreme Court’s conclusion that it was not.129 A statement under section 19(1)(b) of the HRA was made when the Bill was introduced.130 The predecessor JCHR published a critical report on the Safety of Rwanda Bill, concluding, inter alia, that...
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#17 - 1st Report - Policing and security in Northern Ireland
We are concerned about the increase in people smuggling and commercial exploitation across the land border on the island of Ireland. We will keep under review the expanded data sharing arrangements recently announced by the UK and Irish Governments. While irregular migration into the UK may not be as significant via Northern Ireland as it is across the...
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#7 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
The Department described the different forms of harm that occur from immigration crime. These include criminal harm by foreign national offenders against their victims and society, and the harm organised crime groups commit against society and vulnerable people. It also includes the financial harm to legitimate UK employers of competitors employing people illegally and harm caused to taxpayer-funded...
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#6 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
We are not convinced that the Department is sufficiently prepared to safeguard the status of individuals while also implementing a new immigration system and managing its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department faces several challenges in the immediate future. The extension of visas during the COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns that mistakes in case and data management could...
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#20 - Home Office lacks a clear timeline for fully phasing out asylum seeker hotel accommodation.
Since 2020, the Home Office has increasingly used hotels to accommodate people seeking asylum, as demand for accommodation increased and there was an insufficient supply of alternative accommodation. In October 2023, the Home Office announced that it intended to stop using some of its 400 asylum hotels in the coming months.32 The Home Office told us that there...
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#16 - Many asylum seekers remain in limbo with unprocessed claims pending relocation.
The Illegal Migration Bill was first introduced to Parliament in March 2023, and since this time the Home Office has not been processing claims for the majority of people arriving in small boats and through other irregular means. We remarked that at the time of our evidence session, individuals could not apply for asylum and the Home Secretary...
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#16 - 2nd Report - Accountability for Daesh crimes
The Government must adopt a proactive approach and seek to identify and locate minors and where feasible repatriate them as soon as practically possible. (Recommendation, Paragraph 97)
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#12 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
We agree with our predecessor Committee that section 29 IMA, which broadens the public order disqualification in section 63 of the Nationality and Borders Act, is not compatible with the UK’s obligations under ECAT and Article 4 of the ECHR. We recommend that the Government repeal this provision. (See Amendment 14, Annex). (Recommendation, Paragraph 114)
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#7 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The Government should ensure that clause 18 is sufficiently clear and circumscribed, reflects the legitimate aim it is intended to achieve, and is proportionate to that aim. In particular, a mental element should be introduced to ensure that only conduct which is intentional or reckless is criminalised. (See Amendment 12, Annex) (Recommendation, Paragraph 68) Powers of search, seizure...
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#6 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
More broadly, we agree with our predecessor Committee that the Government should fully incorporate Article 31 of the Refugee Convention into section 31 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Section 31 should include the new offences in this Bill and the offence of illegal entry/arrival under section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971. (See Amendment 3, Annex)....
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#5 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
In relation to clause 16: a. The Government should give consideration to amending the scope of the offences to ensure that they only apply to persons involved in the smuggling of persons for direct or indirect financial or material gain. (See Amendment 9, Annex) b. Clause 16(2) should be removed and replaced with a requirement that the person...
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#155 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The rebuttable presumption is an important safeguard to give refugees the opportunity to argue against the seriousness of their offence and the danger they pose to the community. The Convention also provides a safeguard as the principle of non-refoulement under certain rights, such as Articles 2 and 3, provides an absolute bar to removing or returning an individual...
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#154 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
In the supplementary ECHR memorandum published by the Government, it is noted that an individual affected by this amendment “would still be able to rely on Article 2 or 3 rights, if they faced a real risk of persecution, but their claim for refugee status would not be accepted.”199 The Government also notes in its supplementary ECHR memorandum...
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#153 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
However, in practice, the lowering of this threshold may have very little effect. Professor Sarah Singer told us: “the Nationality and Borders Act introduced a new interpretation of Article 33(2) [Refugee Convention]… It would be highly unlikely to have a case under the Sexual Offences Act that did not meet that already very low bar [of a twelve...
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#152 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
For these purposes, a particularly serious crime, in domestic law, is a crime for which a person is sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months.197 The threshold is therefore amended by this provision in the Bill - a person could be excluded from protection under the Refugee Convention for a conviction of any of...
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#151 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The Refugee Convention, in its Article 33(2), allows for refugees to be excluded from non-refoulement protections where there are reasonable grounds for regarding them as a danger to the security of the UK or where if, having been convicted of a particularly serious crime, they constitute a danger to the community in the UK.
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#150 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Clause 48 was added by way of Government amendment at Report stage in the Commons. It provides for the classification of certain sexual offences as “particularly serious” when determining exclusions from the protection against refoulement, regardless of period of imprisonment. The relevant offences are sexual offences under Schedule 3 of the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) 2003, which are...
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#122 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
In its observations on the Bill, the UNHCR states: “while designation of safe countries may be used as a procedural tool to prioritise or accelerate the examination of applications in carefully circumscribed situations, it does not displace the requirement for an individualised assessment of an asylum claim. Section 59 therefore gives rise to a risk of refoulement, and...
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#121 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
In relation to India, Rainbow Migration shared two examples of clients who have been granted asylum in the UK: a. “A trans woman from India came out to her parents at age fourteen. They reacted very negatively, locking her in the house and refusing to let her out. They forced her to undergo harmful conversion practices, which the...
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#118 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The implications for Albanian women and children are particularly concerning. For example, an Albanian woman who has been trafficked to the UK and faces a real risk of reprisals and re-trafficking upon return to Albania, could be returned to Albania unless she can demonstrate “exceptional circumstances” according to the determination of the Secretary of State. The UK country...
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#117 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Our predecessor Committee concluded that that whilst the listed States may be considered to be safe ‘in general’, this does not guarantee their safety for all individuals, particularly those who are members of a particular social group. It must be possible for such individuals who face a real risk of persecution upon return to make a protection or...
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#116 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Inadmissibility procedures allow a State to declare claims “inadmissible” when the claim is made by nationals of countries that are deemed safe. Section 80A(5) provides two non-exhaustive examples of exceptional circumstances. These are narrowly construed: first, where the listed state is derogating from the ECHR, and second, where the state is subject to proceedings151 before the EU due...
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#115 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Section 59 IMA (partially in force)149 amends section 80A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, which provides that asylum claims and human rights claims from nationals of listed states must be declared inadmissible. Section 59 IMA principally does two things. First, it extends the list from EU nationals to nationals of Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and...
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#114 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
recommendation We agree with our predecessor Committee that section 29 IMA, which broadens the public order disqualification in section 63 of the Nationality and Borders Act, is not compatible with the UK’s obligations under ECAT and Article 4 of the ECHR. We recommend that the Government repeal this provision. (See Amendment 14, Annex). Section 59 IMA: inadmissibility of...
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#108 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The Helen Bamber Foundation and Asylum Aid state the public order disqualification under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 is already broad and is catching levels of behaviour that fall below the appropriate threshold for depriving a victim of protections. For example, “Asylum Aid recently represented a claimant, ‘EO’, whose case demonstrates just how wide reaching the impact...
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#93 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
conclusion Clause 37 of the Bill would repeal SORA in its entirety. This is consistent with the current Government’s manifesto commitment to abandon the Rwanda policy. Repeal of SORA will remove the significant incompatibilities identified in the predecessor JCHR’s report. Clause 38: Repeal of certain provisions of the Illegal Migration Act 2023
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#91 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The central provisions of SORA: confirm that the Republic of Rwanda is a safe third country for the purposes of removal; require any court or tribunal to conclusively treat Rwanda as a safe for the purposes of asylum and removal; and state explicitly that it is only for a Minister of the Crown to decide whether the UK...
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#90 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 (“SORA”) was passed after the Supreme Court held that the Government’s policy of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda, under the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP), was unlawful.128 SORA was enacted to ensure that removals to Rwanda could go ahead without legal obstacles.
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#68 - 4th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
recommendation The Government should ensure that clause 18 is sufficiently clear and circumscribed, reflects the legitimate aim it is intended to achieve, and is proportionate to that aim. In particular, a mental element should be introduced to ensure that only conduct which is intentional or reckless is criminalised. (See Amendment 12, Annex) 29 3 Powers of search, seizure...
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#1 - 1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) about government’s management of the end-to-end asylum system.1
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#33 - Fourth Report: Home Office preparedness for COVID-19 (Coronavirus): institutional accommodation
In order to achieve an equitable and sustainable UK-wide dispersal system, the Home Office and its providers must give due regard to the acute financial and capacity constraints currently placed on dispersal authorities, many of which are grappling with even greater community pressures arising from the pandemic, including housing the broader homeless population.
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#32 - Fourth Report: Home Office preparedness for COVID-19 (Coronavirus): institutional accommodation
Our predecessors highlighted the shortcomings of the Home Office’s dispersal policy and its failure to make dispersal arrangements equitable across the UK. Three years on from the Committee’s 2017 report, we have noted with concern the pressures on the system since the introduction of the AASC contracts in September
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#22 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department extended the visas of all individuals for whom it was difficult to seek visa extensions or return home. The Department told us it was unlikely to apply another blanket extension beyond the end of July 2020 and would instead look on a case-by-case basis.61 The Committee of Public Accounts has previously reported...
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#20 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
The Department acknowledged that these arrangements would be part of the ongoing negotiations with the EU.55 We asked whether Immigration Enforcement proposed to keep teams in EU airports after the transition period ended. The Department appeared unconcerned about any possible barriers to this, and said that it did not see any reason why the arrangements would change.56 It...
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#19 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
We asked about the impact of the UK’s departure from the EU on the Department’s immigration enforcement activities.52 The Department has teams in EU countries which support its work to prevent unlawful entry to the UK and to tackle organised immigration crime. The Department told us the Dublin II agreement allows it to pass responsibility for some asylum...
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#18 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
We asked what the Department could learn from its analysis of late asylum claims to reduce the number of these. The NAO reported that the Department failed to complete 62% of the returns it planned from immigration detention in 2019, compared to 56% in 2018.49 We heard how decisions and trends elsewhere in the system, for example changes...
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#13 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
We asked the Department to account for the plummeting number of people it returns to their countries of origin. The Department claimed that the fall in returns was because of greater compliance with immigration rules, changes to the legal framework and higher numbers of claims made on human rights, modern slavery, asylum or medical grounds.30 The Department asserted...
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#4 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
The Department’s failure to develop an end-to-end understanding of the immigration system leads to problems which it could avoid. At present, there are gaps in its digital and paper trail, and it is likely these have an impact on Immigration Enforcement’s ability to remove individuals from the UK. The Department says that there is now an “active conversation”...
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#24 - Rwanda partnership's value for money depends on deterring a significant number of illegal entries.
The success—and value for money—of the Rwanda partnership depends on whether it deters people from making dangerous and illegal journeys to the UK, including small boat crossings. In 2023, the Home Office estimated that illegal entries need to reduce by one third from 2022 levels for the policy to represent value for money. Based on illegal migration levels...
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