Question follow-through · 3573
Asylum: Housing
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
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.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Home Office has not reduced the move on period. In December 2024, the Home Office began piloting an extended 56-day grace period. In September 2025, the pilot was paused for single adults and came to an end for all cohorts on 8 March 2026.From the 9 M...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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