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Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total amount owed to the Home Office by companies that receive money to house irregular migrants in hotels since 2019; and what discussions she has had with those com

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
19 May 2025
Target answer date
22 May 2025
Answer
28 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total amount owed to the Home Office by companies that receive money to house irregular migrants in hotels since 2019; and what discussions she has had with those com

  2. 22 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office is currently conducting an open book audit covering the seven contracts with the three suppliers of Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts. Following completion of the audit, excess profits will be returned to the Home Office in line w...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Telford

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum hotels there are within Telford constituency; what (a) month and (b) year those hotels were opened; how many people are staying within each hotel; and what the contracted end date is f

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

West Mercia Police: Expenditure

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was allocated in cash terms to West Mercia Police in each of the last five financial years; what level of reserves that force held in each of those years; what the cost of (a) managem

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Telford

1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many lower-layer super output areas are within Telford constituency; how those areas are ranked by top (a) 1%, (b) 5% and (c) 10% in the index of multiple deprivation; and what impact that data ha

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Staff

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a reduction in the number of civilian staff on (a) police forces and (b) warranted police officers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hotels

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her department has recovered from asylum hotel providers in excess profits in each year since the creation of the contract, broken down by provider.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hotels

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the outstanding profit share from asylum hotel providers owed to the home office, broken down by provider.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

West Mercia Police: Finance

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will determine West Mercia Police's requests for special grant funding for the next financial year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pride in Place Programme

3 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to support wards receiving funding through the Pride in Place programme in a) Telford, b) West Midlands and c) England.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Terrorism: Disadvantaged

12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds data on the number and proportion of people convicted of terror offences who previously had free school meal eligibility.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Finance

16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support the financial sustainability of police forces.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Policing: Recruitment

16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of her Department's progress towards its target of recruiting 13,000 additional neighbourhood police officers over the course of this Parliament.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of her Department's progress on reducing unauthorised migration across the English Channel.