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Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels and other accommodation sites were used for illegal migrant accommodation in 2025; and what the average occupancy was across those sites.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
26 Jan 2026
Answer
29 Jan 2026 · 8 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, how many hotels and other accommodation sites were used for illegal migrant accommodation in 2025; and what the average occupancy was across those sites.

  2. 26 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    At its peak under the previous government, around 400 hotels were used to accommodate asylum seekers – costing £9 million per day. That figure is now under 200 - the government remains committed no longer using hotels to accommodate asylum seekers by the ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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