Question follow-through · 107551

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the per-person, per-night cost was for hotel accommodation used for illegal migrants in 2025 by region and supplier.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
26 Jan 2026
Answer
2 Feb 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the per-person, per-night cost was for hotel accommodation used for illegal migrants in 2025 by region and supplier.

  2. 26 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    We do not report and hold data at this granularity and would only be obtainable at disproportionate cost.The Home Office publishes information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office annual report and accounts: 2024 to 2025 - GOV.UK

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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