Written Question·Home Office·UIN 76290

Private Rented Housing: Rents

Tabled: 10 September 2025

Answered: 16 September 2025

Named Day

Question

Chris Philp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that long-standing tenants in Croydon are not (a) evicted and (b) displaced by higher rental offers made to landlords by (i) Serco and (ii) other contractors.

Answer

Alex Norris

The Home Office has a legal obligation to provide accommodation for asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, whilst their claims are being processed.This Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, f...

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