Written Question·Home Office·UIN 70608
Asylum: Private Rented Housing
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 3 September 2025
Named DayQuestion
Chris Philp
Conservative — Croydon South
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum accommodation contracts on the private rented housing market in Croydon.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleWhen this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...
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