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Asylum: Housing

Commons · Question 107532 · Tabled 21 Jan 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 29 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Euan Stainbank

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that new asylum seeker accommodation is equitably dispersed between the regions and nations of the United Kingdom.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 29 Jan 2026

The department operates a Full Dispersal model which works to ensure that asylum accommodation is equitably and fairly spread out across regions and nations of the United Kingdom, meaning that a small number of local authorities are not unduly burdened.To...