Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, pursuant to to the Answer of 7 May 2020 to Question 42081 on Asylum: Detention Centres and the Answer of 19 May 2020 to Question 46686 on Asylum: Housing, if he will publish the guidance issue by Public Health England to the Home Office that informed (a) the decision on 27 March 2020 to pause asylum support cessations and evictions and (b) the current review of this pause to be completed by end of June 2020.

We have been working closely with National and Local health Colleagues throughout the pandemic to inform our approach.?? PHE guidance focused initially on the provision to self-isolate and social distance and, in the review, to follow MHCLG guidance in relation to moving home and social bubbles which was supported by PHE. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-advice-on-home-moving-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak and - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meeting-people-from-outside-your-household.

We also sought specific advice in relation to the pause of asylum support cessations and the subsequent review.