Question follow-through · 26313
Asylum: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in Scotland by local authority.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in Scotland by local authority.
28 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 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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