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Question follow-through · 86770

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to its contractors on the methdology that should be used to determine the number of bedrooms that should be provided to asylum seekers with children.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
3 Nov 2025
Answer
5 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to its contractors on the methdology that should be used to determine the number of bedrooms that should be provided to asylum seekers with children.

  2. 3 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office expects the highest standards from accommodation providers. A detailed breakdown of all of the services to be undertaken by accommodation providers and the standards we expect can be found in the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services C...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp

4 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Wealden District Council has raised legal objections to the use of Crowborough Training Camp to house asylum seekers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hillingdon

27 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated to the London Borough of Hillingdon to assist with the costs of asylum seekers in 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Temporary Accommodation: Refugees

27 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department made of potential changes in the cost of local authority temporary accommodation from asylum seekers moving across to refugee status.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Community Relations: Radicalism

27 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the Preventing Radicalisation Fund funding to local authorities in 2025-26 operating on a competitive bidding basis.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hillingdon

27 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was allocated to the London Borough of Hillingdon for asylum costs in the 2024-2025 financial year.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Asylum: Housing

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to paragraph 5.29 of the OBR, Economic and Fiscal Outlook, November 2025, CP1439, 26 November 2025, if she will provide an annual breakdown of the £15.3 billion cost of asylum accommodation ov

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hillingdon

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Home Office funding is being provided to the London Borough of Hillingdon in 2025-26 to assist with the costs of asylum seekers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Finance

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to page 122 of the OBR, Economic and Fiscal Outlook, November 2025, CP1439, 26 November 2025, what is her department’s estimated spending on asylum in 2024-25 and each year of the Spending Rev

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Multiple Occupation

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office and its subcontractor are paying above market rates to hire Houses in Multiple Occupation for asylum accommodation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Counter-terrorism: Finance

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 14 November 2025, to Question 86767, on Counter-terrorism: expenditure, what was the policy reason for the number of local authorities receiving Prevent funding being reduced

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Policing and Crime Boards

2 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what will be the composition of Policing and Crime Boards following the abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners; whether they will contain independent members; how will they be politically balance

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Radicalism: Expenditure

2 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 14 November 2025, to Question 86768, on Radicalism: Expenditure, if he will list the individual sums given to each of those local authorities; and what was the methodology us