Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to take steps to provide women-only accommodation for women seeking asylum.

The Home Office has published the Asylum Support Contracts Safeguarding Framework at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-support-contracts-safeguarding-framework.

This framework sets out a joint, overarching approach, as well as the key controls and reporting mechanisms in place, across the AASC contracts, for safeguarding arrangements.