Question follow-through · 110031
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers at the Copthorne Hotel London Gatwick are (a) single males and (b) family groups for which the latest data is available.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp · 20 Feb 2026
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- Wealden District Council: Asylum · 8 Jun 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
2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers at the Copthorne Hotel London Gatwick are (a) single males and (b) family groups for which the latest data is available.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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5 Feb 2026
Answer published
This Government inherited a broken asylum system, with tens of thousands stuck in a backlog and claims not being processed, wasting millions in taxpayer money. We will empty asylum hotels as soon as possible, and by the end of this Parliament. That is a c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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