Asylum: Homelessness

(asked on 9th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support (a) homeless and (b) other asylum-seeking and refugee women during the covid-19 pandemic.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 16th February 2021

Asylum seekers who are destitute and do not have adequate housing or the means of obtaining it are provided with accommodation from the Home Office, as well as other support to cover their essential living needs. This is in line with our statutory duties.

Individuals granted refugee status become eligible to the same local authority assistance with housing that is available to British Citizens and other permanent residents of the UK.

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