Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Section 4 asylum dispersals are continuing during the covid-19 outbreak.

We recognise the challenge of managing COVID 19 within our accommodation estate and are working closely with Public Health England (PHE) on how their guidance on social distancing and self-isolation is properly applied, while ensuring that people can continue to access essential services. We have reduced movement around our accommodation in line with wider guidance, moves can still take place where there is a critical or need or to ensure social distancing and isolation. There are currently no cases of Covid-19 in the immigration detention estate