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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- Answering body
- 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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- Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp · 3 Mar 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
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.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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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-...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp
3 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to establish a community liaison group, to be attended by the Home Office and representatives of residents, including local MPs, councillors, Crowborough Shield & other community org