§ Mr. Stephen TwiggTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he intends to make public country assessments prepared in respect of the main asylum producing countries in the United Kingdom. [42271]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienCountry assessments are being produced by the Country information and Policy Unit within the Immigration and Nationality Directorate on the 35 main asylum producing countries in the United Kingdom. The assessments will be completed over the next few weeks and will be made publicly available on the Home Office Internet site. Copies of the assessments will be placed in the Library as they become available. The assessments are all sourced to information obtained from independent external sources and from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. A bibliography of sources used is included in each assessment.
Assessments are being prepared in respect of the following countries:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Bulgaria
128 - Cameroon
- China
- Colombia
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Cyprus
- Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire)
- Ethiopia
- Former Republic of Yugoslavia
- Ghana
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Ukraine
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Turkey.
It is intended to revise and update the assessments periodically; approximately six monthly depending on reported circumstances in the country concerned.