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Asylum: Hotels

Asked by Joani ReidLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 17 December 2024UIN 18722

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people living at the Bruce Hotel in East Kilbride have been granted asylum in the past 12 months.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on grants at initial decision is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2024. Data on grants of refugee status by location or accommodation type is not published.

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