Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons his Department provides local services funding for Initial Asylum accommodation and not Contingency Asylum accommodation.

On 13th April 2022, the then Minister for Safe and Legal Migration announced we would move to a full model for dispersal, to end our reliance on the use of temporary contingency accommodation.

We have committed to working with local authorities to move to a fairer distribution of asylum seekers. All local authority areas in England, Scotland and Wales will be expected to participate in the new system process to allow us to move from hotels to less expensive and more suitable dispersed accommodation.