Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the new asylum accommodation centre at RAF Linton-on-Ouse will be operated under an existing Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract.

Planning permission is required for the carrying out of development and/or the making of a material change of use in the land as defined under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 grants planning permission for specific classes of development without the need for an express application and a grant of planning permission from the local authority.

To the extent converting the site into asylum accommodation involves development and/or makes a material change of use in the land, which is expected to be the case, the position will be regularised under the applicable planning laws at the appropriate time

In relation to the AASC contract, the Home Office intends to operate the new asylum accommodation centre at RAF Linton-on-Ouse using an existing contract for Asylum Accommodation and Support Services.