Undocumented Migrants: Housing

(asked on 1st November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she made of the (a) financial and (b) social challenges of redistributing potentially thousands of illegal immigrants in different regions of the UK.


Answered by
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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 9th November 2022

The Home Office does not accommodate illegal migrants, but does have a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.

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