Asylum: Housing
Commons · Question 28413 · Tabled 9 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks her Department undertakes on the immigration status of a person hosting an asylum seeker under the subsistence-only support route.
Answer
Answered by Anna Turley, 17 Sep 2026
Where an asylum seeker makes an application for subsistence only support, an assessment is made on whether they are destitute. This may involve enquiries about the hosts circumstances where relevant to determining whether the asylum seeker is destitute. A...