Question follow-through · 31574

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of laundry services for irregular migrants housed in hotels in 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 13 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 24 Feb 2025
Answer: 28 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of laundry services for irregular migrants housed in hotels in 2024.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Feb 2025
Answer published
The cost of laundry and cleaning services at hotels are included in the overall payment made for the use of each property rather than through any separate contractual arrangement.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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