Written Question·Home Office·UIN 23511

Asylum: Hotels

Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 20 January 2025

Question

Lewis Cocking

ConservativeBroxbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on ending the use of hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.

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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