Written Question·Home Office·UIN 71421

Asylum: Bradford

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Robbie Moore

ConservativeKeighley and Ilkley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what capacity her Department has to house asylum seekers within the Bradford Council district.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...

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