Question follow-through · 27668
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of hotels used for contingency asylum accommodation since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of hotels used for contingency asylum accommodation since July 2024.
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2026
Answer published
This government committed to end the use of asylum hotels this parliament and we are on track to deliver just that. We have brought the number of hotels down from 213 in July 2024 to fewer than 160 today, meaning almost 1 in 3 hotels open at the election ...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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