David Simmonds MP: written questions

Written questions

• Asylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65280More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 59362 on Asylum: Housing, if she will place a copy of the template Asylum Accommodation Service Contracts in the Library.

  Answer: The Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts are already published and available on Contracts Finder as follows: Wales AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract Wales - Contracts Finder South AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support S...

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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• Asylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65279More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her plans to remove asylum seekers from hotel accommodation extends to (a) hostels and (b) other types of communal accommodation.

  Answer: The Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders to fulfil its legal obligations, whilst delivering on this Government’s commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of hotels by the end of this Par...

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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• Asylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65278More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2025 to Question 60081 on Asylum: Housing, what her policy for housing asylum seekers in hostels which have been converted from hotels via change of use is.

  Answer: The Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders to fulfil its legal obligations, whilst delivering on this Government’s commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of hotels by the end of this Par...

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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• Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Domestic visitsHome OfficeTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65277More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 30 May to Question 52709 on Police: Elections and of 2 May to Question 47267 on Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Domestic Visits, what assessment she has made of the compatibili

  Answer: The National Police Chiefs’ Council is independent of government, and any assessment of compliance with its guidance on any subject would be for the NPCC to make.

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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• Travellers: Caravan SitesHome OfficeTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65276More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May to Question 52625 on Travellers: Caravan Sites, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of unauthorised traveller encampments on operational policing, in

  Answer: The judgment is being reviewed in detail. Engagement has taken place with the National Police Chiefs’ Council.

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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• Asylum: Television LicencesHome OfficeTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65275More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has provided (a) funding and (b) guidance to (i) private contractors and (b) local authorities for the provision of free TV licences to people seeking asylum.

  Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question 65010.

  Answered 14 Jul 2025

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• Undocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65274More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of small boat arrivals were (a) children, (b) babies and (c) women in the most recent period for which data is available.

  Answer: The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on small boat arrivals by age group and sex is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK de...

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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