Question follow-through · 15392

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels have been used to house irregular migrants since 2018.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 20 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 25 Nov 2024
Answer: 2 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels have been used to house irregular migrants since 2018.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Home Office does not publish data on the number of hotels in use. However, we can confirm that hotel use peaked at more than 400 under the previous government.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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