Question follow-through · 71421

Asylum: Bradford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what capacity her Department has to house asylum seekers within the Bradford Council district.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what capacity her Department has to house asylum seekers within the Bradford Council district.

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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