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Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 59362 on Asylum: Housing, whether local authorities have a veto on the use of specific properties for asylum accommodation.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
9 Jul 2025
Answer
15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 59362 on Asylum: Housing, whether local authorities have a veto on the use of specific properties for asylum accommodation.

  2. 9 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 23 June to Question 59362.

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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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Shoplifting: Crime Prevention

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Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Asylum: Housing

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 75 of the Home Office's annual report and accounts 2024-25, published in July 2025, HC1133, what the total cost of asylum accommodation was in 2024-25.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Nuisance

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Asylum: Hotels

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 234 of the Home Office annual report and accounts 2024-25, published in July 2025, HC1133, how much the UK (a) contributes to and (b) receives from the EU Asylum, Migration and

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Health Services

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Islamophobia

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Chinese Embassy: Security

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question HL8772 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission, through what mechanism her Department had access to the unredacted drawings.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Counter-terrorism: Finance

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