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Asylum: Languages

Question for Home Office

UIN HL11200, tabled on 8 December 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration An inspection of the Home Office’s use of language services in the asylum process, published on 11 November.

Answered on

22 December 2020

The Home Office have assessed the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s (ICIBI) report that was conducted between May to November 2019.

The Department has accepted all three of the ICIBI’s recommendations and our formal response of 11 November 2020 has been published and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/response-to-an-inspection-of-the-home-offices-use-of-language-services-in-the-asylum-process

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