Asked by: Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what costs have been incurred to date to provide temporary accommodation for asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The Home Office have stood down plans to use Yarl’s Wood as a temporary accommodation site for asylum seekers.
Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially sensitive and we would not provide this information for that reason.
Asked by: Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to extend the Action Access pilot scheme in response to the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the numbers of women participating in that scheme.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
Now in its second year, the Action Access pilot has provided women who would otherwise be detained with a programme of support in the community, including case management support. We are working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and they have appointed the National Centre for Social Research to independently evaluate this work, once the pilot concludes in March 2021. The evaluation is scheduled for publication Summer 2021. We will use the evaluation to inform our future approach to case-management focused alternatives to detention.