Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether local authorities are able to use funds from the Local Authority Tariff and Household Costs Fund to help secure private rented accommodation for an Afghan household in the UK through the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan citizens resettlement schemes who (i) remain in a bridging hotel due to end 31 August 2023 and (ii) have submitted a homeless application to a local authority.

Those applying for the ARAP and ACRS will be able to access the Find Your Own accommodation pathway. Local Authorities will be able to use the funding to secure private rented accommodation for an Afghan household.

The government is providing £285 million of new funding to local authorities supporting the Afghan resettlement schemes. This includes £35 million in new cash for local authorities, which will go towards increasing the level of support available and overcoming key barriers in accessing the housing system and employment and a £250 million expansion of the Local Authority Housing Fund to help councils to source homes to house Afghans currently in bridging accommodation.