Plans to send people who enter the UK on small boats to a volcanic island in the south Atlantic are being considered in Whitehall, a government minister has confirmed.
Pressed on the potentially high cost of sending refugees 4,000 miles to be processed, Dines said the focus continued to be on delivering the agreement with Rwanda, but that ministers were looking at “every other additional measure, as you would expect”.
The Financial Times reported that she asked officials to look into the idea, while a Home Office source later told the Guardian it was suggested to her after she sought advice on how other countries deal with asylum applications.
But now under the government’s Illegal Migration Act any person deemed to have tried to enter the UK through irregular means will be permanently excluded from coming back.
Speaking at the time, the then shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said: “This ludicrous idea is inhumane, completely impractical and wildly expensive.
Asked about another of the government’s controversial policies, Dines said she was hopeful the Bibby Stockholm barge would start housing its first asylum seekers “in coming days”.
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Plans to send people who enter the UK on small boats to a volcanic island in the south Atlantic are being considered in Whitehall, a government minister has confirmed.
Pressed on the potentially high cost of sending refugees 4,000 miles to be processed, Dines said the focus continued to be on delivering the agreement with Rwanda, but that ministers were looking at “every other additional measure, as you would expect”.
The Financial Times reported that she asked officials to look into the idea, while a Home Office source later told the Guardian it was suggested to her after she sought advice on how other countries deal with asylum applications.
But now under the government’s Illegal Migration Act any person deemed to have tried to enter the UK through irregular means will be permanently excluded from coming back.
Speaking at the time, the then shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said: “This ludicrous idea is inhumane, completely impractical and wildly expensive.
Asked about another of the government’s controversial policies, Dines said she was hopeful the Bibby Stockholm barge would start housing its first asylum seekers “in coming days”.
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