PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Asylum: Eritrea (9 May 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the findings of the Government's Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015, published on 21 April 2016, on her Department's country guidance on people from Eritrea seeking asylum in the UK.

Asked by:
Mike Kane (Labour)

We are currently updating our September 2015 country information and guidance on handling asylum claims made by Eritrean nationals.

The revised guidance will be based on an assessment of a range of sources including the Foreign Office’s Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015 as well as recent publications by Amnesty International and the findings of a Home Office fact finding mission to Eritrea undertaken in February 2016.

Answered by:
James Brokenshire (Conservative)
12 May 2016