Question follow-through · 1833

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on reducing the use of Official Development Assistance on asylum accommodation.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 25 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 29 Jul 2024
Answer: 1 Aug 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

25 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on reducing the use of Official Development Assistance on asylum accommodation.
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Aug 2024
Answer published
The Government will update the House in due course on the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending, including ODA-eligible spending to support asylum seekers and refugees within the UK.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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