Asylum: Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to sell her Department's vacant residential properties in Upper Bann constituency.
Answered by Sarah Jones
The Home Office does not own properties used to accommodate individuals in the asylum system.
Accommodation is sourced, managed, and maintained by contracted Service Providers under the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts (AASC), which set out obligations to provide suitable accommodation meeting statutory requirements.
These properties are not part of the Home Office estate, and the Department has no authority over their disposal.
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