PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Asylum: Deportation (4 September 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have had with their EU counterparts on the use of the Dublin Convention to remove asylum seekers to the country in which they were first encountered; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by:
Gareth Thomas (Labour)

Answer

Home Office Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of these meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office


Answered by:
James Brokenshire (Conservative)
17 September 2015

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