Question follow-through · 76917
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost of housing asylum seekers in (a) hotels, (b) private rental accommodation and (c) council housing in each of the last five financial years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost of housing asylum seekers in (a) hotels, (b) private rental accommodation and (c) council housing in each of the last five financial years.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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