Question follow-through · 40499
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- Immigration · 31 Mar 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 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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