Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that all women and children refugees are placed in appropriate accommodation; and whether female refugees are offered female-only accommodation.

The Home Office provides accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute.

Women with children who are in receipt of support are not required to share sleeping quarters with unrelated individuals of the opposite sex, but may depending on the circumstances be placed in accommodation facilities used to house such individuals.

Women and children who are granted refugee status in UK become eligible for mainstream welfare services, including housing assistance from the relevant local authority.