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Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are currently housed in Northern Ireland in hotels, initial accommodation, dispersal accommodation and contingency accommodation.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
27 Apr 2026
Target answer date
29 Apr 2026
Answer
29 Apr 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are currently housed in Northern Ireland in hotels, initial accommodation, dispersal accommodation and contingency accommodation.

  2. 29 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    Northern Ireland is not a dispersal area and asylum seekers are not routed between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Northern Ireland’s asylum population is proportionate to its population when compared to the UK. Because Northern Ireland is not a dispe...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals in Northern Ireland prisons, broken down by (a) nationality, (b) sentence status, (c) offence type and (d) immigration status.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Northern Ireland-specific data her Department holds but does not publish on asylum, immigration enforcement, removals and foreign national offenders.

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Asylum: Northern Ireland

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints, contract failures, service credits and financial penalties have been recorded against asylum accommodation providers in Northern Ireland since 2019.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hotels

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what sums her Department disbursed on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland in each month since January 2020.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Asylum: Northern Ireland

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish a Northern Ireland-specific asylum expenditure table covering accommodation, subsistence, healthcare-related support, education-related support, legal support, transport

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Asylum: Northern Ireland

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Northern Ireland-specific performance data are collected under(a) the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts and (b) the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility contract.