PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Refugees: Crime and National Security (29 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their refugee status revoked on the grounds that they committed a serious crime or posed a threat to national security in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

Providing the information on the number of people that have had their refugee status revoked on the grounds of serious crime and are a danger to the community or because they are a danger to national security would require a manual check of individual records that can only be done at disproportionate costs.

Those who have committed a particularly serious crime and are a danger to the community or are a danger to national security are not granted refugee status in the UK. If a person has been recognised as a refugee and they subsequently commit a particularly serious crime and are assessed to be a danger to the community or are assessed as a danger to national security, their refugee status will be revoked as part of the deportation process.

Where we cannot remove such an individual from the UK, due to obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights, revocation of leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain will still take place so that such individuals can no longer enjoy the benefits of such status.

Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
28 July 2020