Question follow-through · 86593
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of consulting with Members before allocating asylum accommodation in their constituencies.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 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
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of consulting with Members before allocating asylum accommodation in their constituencies.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Home Office routinely engages local officials and elected members as part of the procurement process for specific types of accommodation, to enable us to gather local intelligence which informs our decision making. This engagement and disclosure is un...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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