Written Question·Home Office·UIN 23138

Asylum

Tabled: 10 January 2025

Answered: 20 January 2025

Question

Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of the number of asylum seekers entering the UK in December 2024 for (a) community cohesion and (b) the use of hotels for housing asylum seek

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

This government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...

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