PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Rented Housing: Asylum (11 October 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many social housing places are accommodating asylum seekers in (a) Clacton and (b) the UK.
Asked by:
Nigel Farage (Reform UK)
Asked by:
Nigel Farage (Reform UK)
Answer
Social housing stock is not used to accommodate asylum seekers. If a person's immigration status does not allow them recourse to public funds, as is the case in respect of asylum seekers, then they are not eligible for an allocation of social housing.
Answered by:
Matthew Pennycook (Labour)
21 October 2024
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