Schedule 3 - Removal of Asylum Seeker to Safe Country
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
11:00 am
Ms Beverley Hughes (Minister of State (Citizenship and Immigration), Home Office; Stretford and Urmston, Labour)
No. In relation to the provisions that I have outlined for the first group of countries and a human rights claim, if a claim is in connection with the view that the safe third country may breach article 3 by moving a person on to an unsafe country—the refoulement issue—there would not be a JR provision for that. Countries are deemed safe only under the limited provision of article 3 in relation to onward removal. For all other human rights claims and for all groups described in schedule 3 there will be a judicial
remedy. Provisions in clause 10 expressly exempt those areas from having the JR appeal process removed.
I shall refrain from comment on the non-Government amendments now to allow the Opposition to air their views, but I shall deal with them when I sum up.