Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which local authority areas the asylum seekers placed in Napier Barracks are being dispersed to.

The responsibility for locating properties the asylum seekers will move on to, is discharged through a partnership approach with local authorities (LA), involving extensive consultation about local impacts.

Accommodation is offered on a no-choice basis across the United Kingdom and there are established mechanisms in place, via Migrant Help and Support Casework, if individuals have a specific, acute need to be accommodated in a particular area.

We are in continuous dialogue with local authorities to encourage greater participation in the dispersal accommodation system to increase the number of areas which take part in this work.