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Asylum: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum accommodation contracts on the private rented housing market in Croydon.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
3 Sept 2025
Answer
3 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum accommodation contracts on the private rented housing market in Croydon.

  2. 3 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...

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

Private Rented Housing: Rents

10 Sept 2025 · 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.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Asylum: Private Rented Housing

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether landlords in Croydon are being offered rents above market rates to house asylum seekers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had Indefinite Leave to Remain status revoked in each of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration

13 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 24 June 2025 to Question 59762 on Immigration, what progress her Department has made on each of the proposals she plans to bring into effect.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offences against Children: Greater London

15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the cases included in her formal review of grooming gang investigations are in London; in which London boroughs these cases are; and what the dates are of each case.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

29 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to track people crossing the Channel who might pose a security risk.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Offenders

29 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to stop foreign offenders wanted for crimes abroad from (a) crossing the Channel and (b) claiming asylum in the UK.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offences against Children: Inquiries

29 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for the role of Chair of the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offences against Children: Inquiries

29 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will re-open the application window for the role of Chair of the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offences against Children: Oldham

29 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Oldham Council on the potential starting date for its inquiry into grooming gangs operating in Oldham.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

30 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the security services on the monitoring of foreign offenders who may be crossing the Channel to avoid justice for crimes they have committed in other European coun

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp

11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the decision on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers will be taken; by whom the decision will be taken; and what is is the mechanism for taking that decision.