Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many female asylum-seekers are housed in mixed-sex accommodation.

The Home Office closely monitors Accommodation Providers to ensure that they adhere to contractual requirements to consider individual characteristics, including gender, when allocating appropriate accommodation. Services users are not accommodated in mixed-sex dispersal accommodation unless part of a same family unit. Those service users who are accommodated in initial accommodation are provided with same sex rooms or blocks. Information on the gender mix of individual properties is not held in a reportable format and the requested information could therefore only be provided at disproportionate cost by examination of individual property records.