Question follow-through · 23138
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of the number of asylum seekers entering the UK in December 2024 for (a) community cohesion and (b) the use of hotels for housing asylum seek
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of the number of asylum seekers entering the UK in December 2024 for (a) community cohesion and (b) the use of hotels for housing asylum seek
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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20 Jan 2025
Answer published
This government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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