Question follow-through · 59087

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, whether she has had recent discussions with the Home Secretary on the closure of all asylum hotels in this Parliament.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
13 Jun 2025
Answer
18 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, whether she has had recent discussions with the Home Secretary on the closure of all asylum hotels in this Parliament.

  2. 13 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders and consider a range of options to fulfil its legal obligations and deliver its commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, and to end the use of hotels by the end of Parlia...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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