Question follow-through · 9413
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels have started housing asylum seekers awaiting a decision on whether they will be granted refugee status since 5 July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 97 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum · 17 Oct 2024
- Migrant Workers: Visas · 18 Oct 2024
- Migration Advisory Committee · 21 Oct 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels have started housing asylum seekers awaiting a decision on whether they will be granted refugee status since 5 July 2024.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly. This includes clearing the backlog to reduce demand on our accommodation estate and ending the use of hotels over time.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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