Question follow-through · 115023
Social Services: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the costs to local authorities of providing social care and related services to asylum seekers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the costs to local authorities of providing social care and related services to asylum seekers.
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2026
Answer published
Ministers and officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government engage regularly with counterparts in the Home Office on a range of issues, including on matters relating to local government. The Home Office has overall responsibilit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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