Written Question·Home Office·UIN 107532

Asylum: Housing

Tabled: 21 January 2026
Answered: 29 January 2026

Question

Euan Stainbank

LabourFalkirk

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that new asylum seeker accommodation is equitably dispersed between the regions and nations of the United Kingdom.

Answer

Alex Norris
The department operates a Full Dispersal model which works to ensure that asylum accommodation is equitably and fairly spread out across regions and nations of the United Kingdom, meaning that a small number of local authorities are not unduly burdened.To...

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