Written Question·Home Office·UIN 50501

Asylum: Housing

Tabled: 7 May 2025

Answered: 16 May 2025

Question

Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to financially support local authorities in (a) providing rent subsidies and (b) providing homelessness services caused by accommodating dispersed asylum seekers.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

This Government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...

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