Question follow-through · 48224

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who arrived illegally via small boat (a) before and (b) since 5 July 2024 are living in hotel accommodation.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
29 Apr 2025
Answer
6 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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

Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who arrived illegally via small boat (a) before and (b) since 5 July 2024 are living in hotel accommodation.

  2. 29 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office does not publish asylum support statistics broken down by method of arrival.However, data is published quarterly, on both the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, including hotels, and the number of small boat arrivals, and...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s publication entitled Cambridgeshire Constabulary, published on 9 April 2025, whether the figures apply only to year one of the four year neighbourhood policing grant

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Recruitment

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers Cambridgeshire Constabulary expects to recruit in (a) 2025-2026, (b) 2026-2027, (c) 2027-2028 and (d) 2028-2029.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Charities: Finance

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to (a) Respect, (b) Galop, (c) SignHealth and (d) Hourglass in each of the last three financial years; and how much it will provide in 2025-26.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Maternity Payments

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many one-off maternity payments of £300 have been granted to asylum seekers whose baby was (a) due in 11 weeks or less and (b) under 6 months old.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Working Hours

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) duration of shifts required to provide continued cover for the same full-time equivalent warranted police officer patrolling role (i) in

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Policing: Recruitment

29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of the 28 April 2025 to Question 44693 on Neighbourhood Policing, how the figure of an additional 13,000 neighbourhood police officers was calculated.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived illegally via small boat since 5 July 2024 have been granted asylum.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gender Based Violence: Men

29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to question 47394 on Gender Based Violence: Men, what policing framework do police forces use for male victims of (a) domestic abuse, (b) rape and sexual assaul

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Policing

30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether named neighbourhood police officer coverage will be available 24 hours per day.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Finance

30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of fraudulent use of Aspen cards have been (a) reported and (b) discovered since 5 July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum

30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had asylum applications refused and were living in Government-funded accommodation as of 1 April 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Recruitment

30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 46182 on Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Recruitment, how her Department calculated the number of additional (a) police officers, (b) Police Community