Asylum Seekers: Local Authority Accommodation

Baroness Blower Excerpts

Monday 16th January 2023 Lords Chamber

[Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)]

The noble Baroness is of course correct.

[Baroness Blower (Lab)]

My Lords, the Minister’s response to my noble friend’s question did not actually mention mould. He mentioned adequacy and quoted the law. However, does he accept—and will he say from the Dispatch Box—that it would never be acceptable for any asylum seeker to be housed in any accommodation in which there was black mould growing, particularly in the light of what we learned recently about the death of a young child in such accommodation?

[Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)]

Clearly, the adequacy of accommodation is clearly a matter of fact and assessment for each accommodation—so that is the answer I give to that question.