Written Question·Home Office·UIN 88734

Asylum: Housing

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Mims Davies

ConservativeEast Grinstead and Uckfield

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on (a) when and (b) how often they can issue legal stop notices in relation to the housing of asylum seekers in their areas.

Answer

Alex Norris
Planning enforcement action is not a matter for the Home Office.  This government will close every asylum hotel. Work is well underway, with more suitable sites being brought forward to ease pressure on communities across the country so that the Home Offi...

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