Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people being moved elsewhere from Penally barracks have (a) an adequate supply of prescription medication and (b) their medical records transferred; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure that those involved in the care of asylum seekers are informed in sufficient time of where they are being transferred to so that such arrangements for continuity of medical treatment can be made.

The Home Office and its accommodation provider Clearsprings Ready Homes (CRH) is working closely with the partners at Hywel Dda Health Board, to ensure steps can be taken to ensure they have enough medication and continuity of care is maintained.

Transfers from Penally have taken place for several weeks to longer-term dispersal accommodation and well-developed relationships are in place to ensure receiving health boards are aware of new arrivals to their area.