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International displacement strategy

Lack of a holistic view and overarching strategy for addressing drivers of displacement and establishing effective prevention mechanisms.

506 items 14 sources 2 inquiries
Source spread

Where this theme appears

This theme appears across 14 independent accountability sources, so the source mix matters as much as the headline total.

2 inquiry recs 2 PFD reports 450 committee recs 1 ICIBI rec 1 NAO rec 21 IMB recs 2 IMB reports 6 detention investigation recs 9 DHR recs 1 PHSO decision 3 LGO/SPSO decisions

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14 sources
Inquiry recommendations(2)
Prevention of Future Deaths reports(2)
Select committee recommendations(450)— showing 50 strongest matches
#50 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: We report the Rwanda Treaty to the House for special attention together with our comments in paragraphs 20, 33, 38, 42, 45–47 and 48–49. 1 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain …
Response attribution not verified
#49 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: In making this recommendation we draw to the attention of the House the terms of section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act which provide that the House of Commons has the power to delay the ratification of a …
Response attribution not verified
#48 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: The Government should submit further information to Parliament in due course to confirm that the necessary legal and practical steps and training identified in this report, which underpin the protections provided for in the Treaty, have been put in place …
Response attribution not verified
#47 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: In November the Prime Minister indicated a desire to ratify the Treaty as quickly as possible, which could be as early as February on the expiry of the CRAG scrutiny period. If the Government ratifies immediately, it gives the Government …
Response attribution not verified
#46 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: Greater transparency is also required about aspects of the Treaty’s implementation to allow for a full assessment . Witnesses to this inquiry highlighted a number of areas of uncertainty as discussed in this report. The Government has now published some …
Response attribution not verified
#45 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: The Government has presented the Rwanda Treaty to Parliament as an answer to the Supreme Court judgment and has asked Parliament, on the basis of the Treaty, to declare that Rwanda is a safe country. While the Treaty might in …
Response attribution not verified
#44 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: In his evidence to us on 19 December 2023, the Home Secretary suggested 64 that we could draw an inference about UNHCR’s views from the fact that it had transferred more than 160 asylum seekers to Rwanda the day after …
Response attribution not verified
#43 —
International Agreements Committee
Recommendation: The Supreme Court relied heavily on the evidence of the UNHCR in making its assessment of whether Rwanda is a safe country. The rapid timetable for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Treaty did not allow enough time for UNHCR to respond …
Response attribution not verified
#30 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The obligations examined in this report arose from the UK’s long involvement in Afghanistan, the commitments made to Afghans who supported the UK mission, and the additional risks created by the data breach. The government and local partners have brought …
Response status not verified
#29 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The government should publish the outcome measures it is developing for the Afghan Resettlement Programme and explain how they will be used to manage delivery and improve outcomes. These measures should cover, at a minimum, movement from temporary to settled …
Response status not verified
#28 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The government should ensure that relocated Afghans in transitional accommodation have timely access to casework updates where unresolved applications involving close family members remain a significant source of anxiety or practical uncertainty. (Recommendation, Paragraph 224)
Response status not verified
#27 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: For many relocated Afghans, unresolved cases involving close family members remain a significant source of anxiety and affect wellbeing and integration. Family separation and lack of timely casework updates are therefore not peripheral issues; they are part of the continuing …
Response attribution not verified
#26 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: Afghan resettlement has brought many people to safety, but successful resettlement cannot be measured by arrival numbers alone. It should also be judged by how quickly families move from temporary to settled accommodation, whether they receive early support, whether unresolved …
Response status not verified
#25 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The government should publish, by the time it responds to this report, a clear policy for eligible Afghans who cannot safely, lawfully or affordably self-move to a third country. This should include criteria for identifying these cases and should set …
Response status not verified
#24 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The government has not adequately explained how it will protect eligible Afghans who cannot safely, lawfully or affordably self-move to a third country for UK entry-clearance checks. This is a serious gap in the current model. A policy that works …
Response status not verified
#23 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: We welcome the government’s stated ambition to clear the current ARAP caseload by spring 2027, and its decision to publish KPIs and transparency data. These are important corrective steps. But the commitment will only be meaningful if it is delivered …
Response attribution not verified
#22 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: Government should not allow departments to continue leading high-risk protection or resettlement casework by default where that work falls outside their core expertise. Where such responsibilities are assigned in urgent circumstances, ministers should keep the operating model under formal review …
Response status not verified
#21 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The government should treat the remaining work for former Triples whose applications were affected by serious administrative failings as a corrective exercise, not routine casework. It should identify the affected cohort, prioritise the remaining cases, including family applications and relocation …
Response status not verified
#20 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The UK’s obligations after the breach were wider than its pre-existing ARAP commitments. The government had continuing obligations to eligible Afghans to whom public commitments had been made after Op PITTING, and additional responsibilities to people placed at increased risk …
Response attribution not verified
#19 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The Triples Review revealed serious administrative failings in the handling of ARAP applications from former members of Afghan specialist units who had worked closely with UK forces. The high overturn rate showed that earlier determinations that applicants were not eligible …
Response status not verified
#15 —
Defence Committee
Recommendation: The government should establish and publish a process for periodic reassessment of the risks faced by ARAP applicants, former applicants and their family members who remain in Afghanistan or third countries, where those risks arise because of their past connection …
Response status not verified
#27 —
International Development Committee
Recommendation: We are disappointed that the FCDO has not worked alongside BII to ensure that a reduction in forced displacement becomes a key criterion in BII’s investment decision making. With such a large portfolio across Nigeria—a country that hosts a vast …
Response status not verified
#19 —
International Development Committee
Recommendation: The FCDO should ensure that conflict prevention and atrocity prevention capabilities remain adequately resourced and integrated across future Nigeria and Sahel programming. This must include strengthened support for: • early-warning systems; • conflict monitoring; • atrocity prevention; • and data …
Response status not verified
#14 —
International Development Committee
Recommendation: The Government must undertake a review, to be shared with the Committee no later than six months from the publication of this report, on how it can contribute towards strengthening regional approaches to insecurity and instability across the Sahel and …
Response status not verified
#12 —
International Development Committee
Recommendation: Within six months of the publication of this report, the FCDO should share with us funding and programming details for humanitarian and conflict monitoring, displacement tracking and early-warning systems across Nigeria, including how data from these systems is integrated into …
Response status not verified
#11 —
International Development Committee
Recommendation: We are concerned by evidence that funding reductions have weakened displacement monitoring. (Conclusion, Paragraph 51) 46
Response status not verified
#16 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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)
Response attribution not verified
#13 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
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 …
Response attribution not verified
#12 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
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. …
Response attribution not verified
#7 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
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 …
Response attribution not verified
#6 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#5 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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. …
Response attribution not verified
#156 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#155 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#154 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#153 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#152 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#151 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#150 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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. …
Response attribution not verified
#123 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#122 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#121 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#120 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#118 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#117 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#116 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#115 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#114 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#112 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#108 —
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation: 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. …
Response attribution not verified
ICIBI immigration recommendations(1)
NAO audit recommendations(1)
IMB annual reports(2)
IMB individual recommendations(21)
Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre (2020)
The Home Office and DET should provide greater guidance for detainees returning to a country where they have not lived for some time, ensuring that they are better equipped for their return.
Home Office
Charter Flight (2020)
Professional interpreting services must be provided to all returnees who need it, at every stage of the removal process on the day, including on the tarmac at the airport (see paragraph 4.5.2 and section 4.9).
Other
Charter Flight (2020)
The same team in an IRC must: (1) continue to offer the Charter Flight Information booklet and explain its contents to all returnees in advance of charter removal, using interpreting services where necessary (see paragraph 4.3.4) and (2) distribute all published literature on reintegration support offered in Jamaica, Pakistan and West Africa to returnees to these countries in advance of …
Other
Charter Flight (2020)
If enforced charter removal to a ‘safe’ country is resumed under, for example, new agreements envisaged in paragraphs 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, these returnees must be told in a language they understand what to expect upon arrival in the ‘safe’ country (see paragraphs 6.1.2 – 6.1.4). The Home Office detainee engagement team (DET) in an IRC should have a role here.
Other
Charter Flight (2020)
If the reality of any such new agreements is that removal from the UK to the ‘safe’ country will be enforced removal, they must contain an express commitment to brief the receiving country on the needs of the returnee – a proper, structured handover of the sort not achieved in 2020, as evidenced in the report.
Other
Risley (2021)
With reference to items 4.2.10 and 5.4.16 in the body of the report, what discussions are you having with colleague ministers in order to help improve the long repatriation/deportation timeframes for foreign national prisoners?
Other In Progress
Maidstone (2021)
Support to implement effective collaboration between HMPPS and HOIE so that communication and end of sentence management for foreign national prisoners are improved, the number of IS91 detainees is reduced and these detainees are no longer held in closed prisons.
Other In Progress
Durham (2021)
IS91 men are not being moved on fast enough (5.4.8). How does the Minister intend to solve this problem?
Other In Progress
Maidstone (2022)
Support, or sponsor if necessary, work to implement effective collaboration between HMPPS and HOIE so that communication and end of sentence management for foreign national prisoners are improved, the number of men detained under IS91 is reduced and that these men are no longer held in prisons.
Ministry of Justice In Progress
Huntercombe (2022)
the ongoing issue of FNPs who have passed their conditional release date (CRD) and are held as IS91 under immigration powers. The Board has noted no improvement in this matter since first reporting it in our report of 2020.
Other
Huntercombe (2022)
the lack of triaging of all FNPs by the Home Office prior to their arrival at HMP Huntercombe, and thus many arriving already past their ERS date, remains a matter of grave concern to the Board.
Other
Huntercombe (2022)
the Board has witnessed an ever-increasing number of foreign national prisoners (FNPs) transferred to HMP Huntercombe without a deportation order (DO), without which removals under the ERS cannot be facilitated. At the end of the reporting year, only 76 men from a roll of 469 had had a DO issued.
Other
Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre (2020)
Greater efforts should be made to remove time served foreign national offenders (TSFNO) on completion of time served, rather than moving them to the Immigration Detention Estate before arrangements are made for removal.
Other
Wandsworth (2022)
Over 50 immigration detainees have been held in the prison for over 18 months. What is being done to speed up the repatriation, extradition and deportation processes?
Home Office Implemented
Charter Flight (2022)
In each of its last four annual reports, the CFMT recommended that the use of airports far from the southeast be discontinued. The recommendation was rejected each time and the practice continued during the reporting period. The issue is perhaps now complicated by the opening of further detention sites. Positioning is therefore a core consideration. Returnees should be accommodated for …
Home Office
Chelmsford (2020)
to work with other government agencies to ensure that IS91 prisoners (those detained by the immigration authorities) are informed of the intention to deport at the earliest possible moment, not at the end of their term, which inevitably means that they are detained beyond the end of their sentence
Other In Progress
Wandsworth (2021)
Immigration service staff were absent throughout the period which caused considerable stress and hardship to foreign nationals, three of whom died during the period. What plans have been put in place to ensure that this most unsatisfactory situation is not repeated in the event of further Covid outbreaks?
Home Office In Progress
Risley (2022)
Can you advise what discussions are being held with Home Office ministers in order to help improve the ongoing repatriation/deportation procedures for foreign nationals?
Other
Morton Hall (2022)
the arrangements for identifying and transferring foreign national prisoners from other prisons, given the significant gap between the planned and actual roll (see paragraphs 3.1.2, 7.3.1)
HMPPS
Wandsworth (2025)
Around half the men in HMP Wandsworth are foreign national prisoners, yet they received inadequate support. What can be done by the Ministry of Justice to improve services available to these men?
Ministry of Justice In Progress
Huntercombe (2021)
Together with Home Office colleagues, to resolve the issue of men continuing to be held under immigration powers post-sentence under convicted criminal conditions (paragraphs 4.2.5, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5 and 7.3.6.).
Ministry of Justice In Progress
Health investigations(2)
Detention investigations(6)
Independent Investigation into Concerns about Brook House Immigration Removal Centre — Rec R34
G4S and the SMT should ensure that the welfare staff at Brook House should develop links with charities and other organisations able to support detainees with resettlement overseas. (To be completed within 3 months)
Immigration Detention
Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the … — Rec 1
The Home Offce should strengthen its promotion of voluntary returns.
Immigration Detention
Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the … — Rec 13
The Home Offce should no longer detain any adults over the age of 70 except in ‘exceptional circumstances’.
Immigration Detention
Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the … — Rec 12
Consideration should be given to AAR Level 2 being sub-divided and, if adopted, the presumption against detention for those in the upper division should be strengthened. The Home Offce should consider the merits of the UNHCR Vulnerability Screening Tool.
Immigration Detention
Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the … — Rec 11
The current Adults at Risk policy should be amended. Detention of anyone at AAR Level 3 should be subject to showing ‘exceptional circumstances’.
Immigration Detention
Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the … — Rec 10
While the recent decrease in the overall number of women in detention is welcome, the Home Offce should at the earliest opportunity take further steps to identify women who claim asylum in detention and whose case would be better processed in the community.
Immigration Detention
Independent reviews(5)
PHSO casework decisions(1)
LGO / SPSO decisions(3)
Domestic Homicide Reviews(9)
Liverpool — recommendation 8
That Home Office and United Kingdom Visa and Immigration Service should ensure that local intelligence regarding those seeking asylum is taken into account as part of the decision-making process for those charged with considering asylum applications.
Home Office | United Kingdom Visa … Home Office
Southampton — recommendation 3
That the Home Office consider the issue where those with serious previous convictions are entering the country and whether a process should be instituted to gather and risk assess such information.
Home Office Home Office
Chelmsford — recommendation 1
The UK Border Agency should make immediate efforts to re-document failed asylum seekers in an effort to facilitate the removal. This will result in the timely removal of immigration applicants from the UK, and will evidently reduce any risk of eventual domestic violence.
UK Border Agency UK Border Agency
Liverpool — recommendation 17.2.1
The Home Office should disseminate to all local authorities, the details of a single point of access for all immigration and asylum enquiries arising from DHRs.
Home Office Home Office
Liverpool — recommendation 17.1.4
Safer and Stronger Communities should support Our Liverpool in establishing effective governance around the central strategy to support people seeking asylum, refugees, and vulnerable migrants (known as the ’ASRVM Strategy’). Specialist domestic abuse services should be attendees to multi-agency meetings, to identify intervention opportunities to support those at risk of …
Liverpool City Council (Safer and Stronger …
Bristol — recommendation 17.1.1
That the Home Secretary completes the introduction of the exit checks programme in relation to people leaving the UK and that intelligence gathered as a result is passed to Immigration Enforcement to tackle those who overstay their leave.
Home Secretary | Immigration Enforcement Home Office
Bracknell Forest — recommendation 5
The Home Office will be asked through this review to consider whether the support services for victims of domestic violence should be further promoted at borders and through the activities of the UKBA.
Home Office | UK Border Agency Home Office
Sheffield — recommendation 4.2.6
Sheffield City Council to review the information on its website regarding City of Sanctuary and migrant communities and ensure that up to date demographic information is provided about asylum seeker and refugees currently seeking sanctuary in the City. This should be a resource for staff and the public providing up …
Sheffield City Council Sheffield City Council
Newham — recommendation 9
The Home Office consider advising that each Community Safety Partnership consider inviting the Immigration Service as associate members to local boards.
Home Office Home Office
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