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Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers local authorities have to object to the housing of asylum seekers in (a) hostel and hotels and (b) private rented sector accommodation in their locality.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
12 Jun 2025
Target answer date
16 Jun 2025
Answer
23 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers local authorities have to object to the housing of asylum seekers in (a) hostel and hotels and (b) private rented sector accommodation in their locality.

  2. 16 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Asylum Accommodation Services Contracts set out a number of principles in relation to working with Local Authorities, and other stakeholders including consultation and liaison regarding the location of accommodation and other issues, ranging from secu...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 53973 on Defending Democracy Taskforce, if she will provide a copy of the Defending Democracy Taskforce's assessment of transnational repression to th

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hotels

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question HL7763 on Asylum: Housing, whether such hotel figures include housing in former communal accommodation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Counter-terrorism

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) internal and (b) external Prevent guidance her Department has drafted on cultural nationalism; and what her Department’s definition is of cultural nationalism.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Asylum: Housing

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much (a) her Department and (b) its contractors have spent on the capital purchase of mobile and caravan homes for asylum seekers since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Defending Democracy Taskforce

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 53973 on Defending Democracy Taskforce, if she will publish the assessment on Transnational Repression in the UK.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hotels

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question HL7763 on Asylum: Housing, what the absolute number of individual hotels that housed the 32,345 people is as of 31 March 2025; and what was the equiva

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Asylum: Housing

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much (a) her Department and (b) its contractors have spent on the rent or lease of (i) caravan and mobile homes and (ii) park homes for housing asylum seekers since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Defending Democracy Taskforce

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 53973 on Defending Democracy Taskforce, if she will publish the conclusions of the review into harassment and intimidation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Espionage: China

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the security services have made of the level of economic espionage by the Chinese Government in the UK.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Nuisance

25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to give (a) police and (b) councils powers to issue (i) nuisance begging directions, (ii) nuisance begging prevention notices, (iii)

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Nuisance

25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to create an offence of (a) engaging in nuisance begging, (b) arranging or facilitating begging for gain and (c) trespassing with intent to com

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Private Rented Housing

26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will commission research into the potential impact of housing asylum seekers in private rented sector accommodation on (a) integration and (b) community cohesion.