Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of community-based alternatives to detention for female asylum seekers in response to the unpublished findings of the Action Access pilot which concluded in March 2021.

We have been working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the Action Access pilot and they have appointed the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to independently evaluate this work. The evaluation report of the Action Access pilot is scheduled for publication this month. The report will include the Home Office’s response to the findings.