Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to the Child Poverty Strategy, published on 5 December 2025, what steps they are taking to ensure that the target to end the discharge of newborn babies into bed and breakfast accommodation or other unsuitable shared housing applies to all families, including those seeking asylum and those subject to no recourse to public funds.

The Government has committed to ending the practice of discharging newborn babies into bed and breakfast or other unsuitable shared accommodation through the Child Poverty Strategy, which has now been published. We are working closely across the Government, including with the Home Office, to consider its implementation and any other associated impacts.

Asylum seeking families can access some of the support set out in the Child Poverty Strategy, including Best Start Family Hubs in England.