PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Refugees: Families (13 April 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to identify vulnerable adult women refugees, including gender-based violence survivors, pregnant refugee women, or women with newly born children under 12 months, who could be eligible for refugee family reunion with extended family they have in the UK, in line with the Dublin Regulation's discretionary clause.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

The Government continues to work with key EU Member States to ensure the Dublin Regulation family reunification process works effectively. We will always fully consider any request made to the UK to unite family members under the Dublin Regulation. Where someone seeking asylum elsewhere in the EU can demonstrate they have close family members legally in the UK, we will continue to meet our obligations under the Dublin Regulation and accept responsibility for processing such claims. At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which can be found at:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
24 April 2017