Question follow-through · 13734

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels are awaiting a decision on their application by (a) nationality, (b) sex and (c) age range.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
14 Nov 2024
Answer
20 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels are awaiting a decision on their application by (a) nationality, (b) sex and (c) age range.

  2. 14 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Data on the number of asylum seekers in receipt of support by nationality, can be found within the Asy_D09 tab for our most recent stats release: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab).

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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