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Children: Asylum Seekers

Volume 698: debated on Thursday 31 January 2008

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Baroness Thomas of Winchester

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What steps they are taking to lift the children of asylum seekers out of poverty. [HL1572]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office
(Lord West of Spithead)

The Border and Immigration Agency already has an effective asylum support regime in place which ensures that no child of an asylum seeker need be living in poverty.