Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 22629

Asylum: Hotels

Tabled: 8 January 2025

Answered: 17 January 2025

Question

Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with (a) the Secretary of State for the Home Department and (b) other Cabinet colleagues to reduce the amount of Overseas Development Assistance spent

Answer

Anneliese Dodds

The Home Secretary is committed to ensuring asylum costs fall and has already taken measures to reduce the backlog and will end the use of expensive hotel accommodation. We expect these plans to create more space in the Official Development Assistance (OD...

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