Written Question·Home Office·UIN 72786
Asylum: Housing
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 10 September 2025
Question
Lewis Cocking
Conservative — Broxbourne
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of accommodating asylum seekers with unknown or unverifiable criminal histories on public safety.
Answer
Alex NorrisThe Home Office has a legal obligation to accommodate asylum seekers where they would otherwise be destitute. All asylum seekers undergo checks against policing and immigration databases.Decisions on allocation of asylum seekers to accommodation are made ...
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