Home Office written question – answered am ar 22 Hydref 2019.
Catherine West
Llafur, Hornsey and Wood Green
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Government has made on its review of the restrictions on asylum seekers' rights to work.
Victoria Atkins
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Minister for Women
We fully recognise that this is an important and complex issue and as the Prime Minister has said, the Home Office is currently reviewing the matter. That work is ongoing and Parliament will be updated accordingly.
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