Question follow-through · 110033
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when will the Copthorne Hotel Gatwick Airport cease to provide asylum accommodation.
About this written question
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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, when will the Copthorne Hotel Gatwick Airport cease to provide asylum accommodation.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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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