Written Question·Home Office·UIN 26314
Asylum: Scotland
Tabled: 24 January 2025
Answered: 3 February 2025
Question
Andrew Bowie
Conservative — West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels her Department has identified as being appropriate for accommodating asylum seekers in Scotland by local authority.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThis 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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