Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has agreed a new two-year contract to put asylum seekers in the Mercure Stanwell Hotel.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

It has been the longstanding policy of the Home Office under successive governments not to disclose information about specific hotels which may or may not be used for asylum accommodation.

However, the Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders to fulfil our statutory obligations and deliver our commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of hotels, by the end of this Parliament.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to close the asylum hotel in Spelthorne constituency.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

It has been the longstanding policy of the Home Office under successive governments not to disclose information about specific hotels which may or may not be used for asylum accommodation.

However, the Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders to fulfil our statutory obligations and deliver our commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of hotels, by the end of this Parliament.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for encouraging children with SEND into mainstream schools.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The department has published independently commissioned insight from the Delivering Better Value programme. This research suggests that, if the system were extensively improved, including using early intervention and better resourcing mainstream schools, tens of thousands more children and young people could have their needs met without the need for lengthy waits and assessments, and have their needs met in a mainstream setting, rather than a specialist placement. Further detail on the research is available here: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63b6e5debb4b0114060dc226/66421eaae18cb50ccc378780_66421a046d5569ec0ad11674_DBV%20-%20Phase%201%20Insights%20Summary_Website%20v1.0_Final.pdf.

Further details of the government's intended approach to special educational needs and disabilities reform will be set out in a White Paper in the autumn.

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Found: Letter from Stephanie Peacock MP to Louie French MP, Lincoln Jopp MP and Lee Dillon MP regarding duties

Found: Letter from Stephanie Peacock MP to Louie French MP, Lincoln Jopp MP and Lee Dillon MP regarding Clause