Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to assess whether parts of the estate of (a) his Department and (b) Network Rail could be repurposed to home refugees from Afghanistan.
The DfT estate is mainly used for operational or office purposes. Our delivery bodies regularly review their operational land and release any surplus land where possible to support government’s housing and other objectives. However, surplus operational land is generally not suitable for health and safety reasons for a quick turnaround into residential accommodation.