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Refugee Convention

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN HL3272, tabled on 8 November 2022

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to withdraw from (1) the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and (2) the 1966 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees; and if they have any such plans, what assessment they have made of the need for replacement legislation.

Answered on

22 November 2022

The Government does not have plans to withdraw from the Refugee Convention and its Protocol.