Question follow-through · 15938

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels in the West Midlands.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
2 Dec 2024
Answer
2 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels in the West Midlands.

  2. 2 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and subsistence support whilst their application for asylum is being considered.This Government inherited an asylum system under unprecedented strain, with t...

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