questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies on the rights of asylum seekers to work of the approach taken in Belgium.
answerText: Those who claim asylum in the UK can apply for permission to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Allowing asylum seekers the right to work sooner could enable migrants to bypass establis...
heading: Asylum: Employment