Housing: Asylum
Commons · Question 79882 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of housing asylum seekers in military bases on his Department’s policies to build more houses on disused public land.
Answer
Answered by Miatta Fahnbulleh, 22 Oct 2025
The government is committed to close all asylum hotels, and to achieve this the Home Office is looking at a range of more appropriate sites including disused accommodation, industrial and ex-military sites to reduce the impact on communities. These effort...