Asylum: Housing

(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what occasions contingency accommodation outside the initial accommodation centres was being used to accommodate asylum seekers who receive (i) s98 and (ii) s95 support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 during 2016-17.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 11th September 2017

Contingency accommodation arrangements were used to provide s.98 accommodation in the first three quarters of 2016/17 to ensure that destitute asylum seekers were safely accommodated during a period of high demand.

No provider has regularly accommodated supported asylum seekers in contingency accommodation outside the initial accommodation estate since January 2017.

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