Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 14211

Housing: Undocumented Migrants

Tabled: 13 November 2024
Answered: 22 November 2024

Question

Richard Tice

Reform UKBoston and Skegness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost of providing (a) housing and (b) welfare support for people residing in the UK illegally; and what steps she is taking to reduce t

Answer

Rushanara Ali
The department has made no such estimate. Persons residing in the UK illegally who have no recourse to public funds are not eligible for an allocation of social housing or statutory homelessness assistance.More broadly, the Home Office is responsible for ...

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