To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the merits of allowing failed asylum seekers who are too frightened to agree to support under Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to continue to receive support from the National Asylum Support Service. (109724)

Asylum seekers whose applications have been refused and whose appeal rights are exhausted have been found not to require international protection. They are therefore required to leave the UK. Section 4 support is available to failed asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute and for whom there is a temporary barrier to leaving the UK. This includes the provision of accommodation where this is necessary for the purpose of avoiding a breach of a person’s Convention rights, within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998.