Written Question·Home Office·UIN 24505

Asylum: Housing

Tabled: 16 January 2025
Answered: 22 January 2025

Question

David Simmonds

ConservativeRuislip, Northwood and Pinner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2024 to Question 18555 on Asylum: Hotels, in what type of tenure and accommodation will the asylum seekers now be housed; how the accommodation will be procured;

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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