Home Secretary to be questioned by Lords Committee
Monday 19 December 2022
On Wednesday 21 December, the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee will be questioning the Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP.
The first half of the session is likely to focus on family migration, which is the subject of the committee’s ongoing inquiry. The second half is likely to cover a wide range of topical matters falling under the Home Secretary’s portfolio, such as asylum policy, the Windrush compensation scheme, and modern slavery.
Questions the committee is likely to ask include:
- To clear the asylum backlog, the Home Secretary recently announced that the Home Office would be “streamlining, digitising and simplifying” the processing of claims. What will this involve?
- What progress has been made towards the building of new facilities to host asylum-seekers?
- How does the Home Secretary intend to prevent abuses of the Modern Slavery Act without reducing the protections that this Act offers to victims?
- Many elderly parents of British citizens are not allowed to join their children in the UK because of the Immigration Rules. How should Adult Dependent Relative visas be reformed to address this issue?
- What ensures that the best interests of the child are fully and consistently considered as “a primary consideration” in all immigration matters that concern them?
- What does the Home Secretary think of concerns that the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and the Bill of Rights Bill may jeopardise UK-EU security cooperation?
The session will take place at 10am on Wednesday 21 December 2022 in Committee room 4A, Palace of Westminster and can also be watched live on Parliament TV.
