Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the ability of asylum seekers to be provided with alternative dispersal accommodation if they are evicted from a house of multiple occupancy.

The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation whilst their application for asylum is being considered.

In the circumstances where a property was no longer available or a landlord no longer wished to contract with our accommodation providers then if the person was still entitled to asylum support they would be moved to appropriate accommodation elsewhere, dependent upon their specific need.