Question follow-through · 107344
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the introduction of buffer zones around asylum accommodation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2026 · 8 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
21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the introduction of buffer zones around asylum accommodation.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office keeps the security of asylum accommodation sites under continual review, and the safety of asylum seekers and the local communities in which accommodation is located will always be our priority.While the Home Office recognises the merit in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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