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Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of charging asylum seekers for costs associated with their settlement in the UK.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
5 Feb 2025
Answer
11 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of charging asylum seekers for costs associated with their settlement in the UK.

  2. 5 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Current Home Office policy in this area remains the same as that in place under the previous government.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to not build new asylum accommodation in Bromsgrove constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration

4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of capping annual net-migration into the United Kingdom.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Deportation

4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of deporting foreign nationals resident in the UK that engage in activities contrary to British values.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Bromsgrove

5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been granted the right to remain in Bromsgrove constituency since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crime

6 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle crime that crosses police force boundaries.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Motor Vehicles: Anti-social Behaviour

7 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of street racing on the A435 at Wythall; and what steps her Department plans to take to help increase prosecutions for the

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Bromsgrove

10 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of policing in Rubery in Bromsgrove constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: France

10 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her French counterpart on reducing illegal migration from France.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders: Undocumented Migrants

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of recent trends in the level of crime committed by illegal migrants on residents in Wythall.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Migrant Workers: Visas

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with a high potential individual visa lived in Bromsgrove constituency on (a) 5 July 2024 and (b) 10 February 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crime

5 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle crime that occurs on the border of multiple police forces.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Anti-social Behaviour and Shoplifting: Wythall

13 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to tackle (a) anti-social behaviour and (b) shoplifting in Wythall.