Question follow-through · 905656

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the reason for the increased number of asylum seekers in hotels on 30 June 2025 compared with the same date in 2024.

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Home Office
Tabled
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
15 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 9 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the reason for the increased number of asylum seekers in hotels on 30 June 2025 compared with the same date in 2024.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

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  3. 15 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    This government inherited a hotels policy which saw 400 hotels opened and a staggering £9million spent a day housing migrants across the country.Instead of clearing the asylum backlog to reduce those costs, the previous government allowed asylum decision-...

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