Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that all dispersal accommodation providers who remove an asylum seeker from their accommodation immediately organise for her Department to arrange alternative dispersal accommodation.

Dispersal accommodation is longer-term accommodation managed by Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts (AASC) Accommodation providers on behalf of the Home Office.

Asylum seekers normally remain in dispersal accommodation until their asylum claim has been fully determined. It is not always possible to stay in the same property in the event that the property is withdrawn by the landlord or the Home Office is not satisfied that the property continues to meet the high standards we expect.

The accommodation needs of any newly granted refugees do, of course, fall to local authorities as part of their statutory duties.