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Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of using modular buildings to reduce reliance on hotels for asylum accommodation.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
18 May 2026
Target answer date
20 May 2026
Answer
27 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of using modular buildings to reduce reliance on hotels for asylum accommodation.

  2. 20 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 May 2026

    Answer published

    We are actively exploring all viable options so we can reduce reliance on hotels, including using modular buildings and ex-military sites.We’ve learned important lessons from inherited decisions made by the previous government. These are now informing our...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2015 to 2020; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.

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Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

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20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of exempting families with children from the reduction in the move-on period for refugees in accommodation from 56 days to 28 days.

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