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Asylum: RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the proposals to house asylum seekers at RAF Barnham, whether any asylum seekers convicted or charged with sexual offences will be housed there.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
2 Jul 2026
Answer
9 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the proposals to house asylum seekers at RAF Barnham, whether any asylum seekers convicted or charged with sexual offences will be housed there.

  2. 2 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 9 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    Mandatory security checks are conducted on all people seeking asylum through linking their biometric data to immigration, security, and criminality databases. This includes criminality checks for, amongst other things, convictions, pending prosecutions, w...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Asylum: RAF Barnham

2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, regarding her plans to house asylum seekers at RAF Barnham, whether she intends that all asylum seekers housed there will be male.

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Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences

10 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences Part 2 by Jonathan Fisher KC was not published until July 2026.