Asylum: Private Rented Housing
Commons · Question 70608 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 3 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Chris Philp
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum accommodation contracts on the private rented housing market in Croydon.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 3 Sep 2025
When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation - with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day - and where a 70 per cent colla...