Asylum: Hotels
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotel rooms were used for asylum accommodation on (a) 1 July 2024 and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many hotels were used for these purposes on each of those dates.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
As part of our effort to cut the overall costs of the asylum system, the Government is committed to end the use of asylum hotels over time, following the peak reached under the previous government when more than 400 hotels were in use, and almost £9 million per day was being spent.
In July 2024 there were 213 hotels used to accommodate asylum seekers. Currently 216 hotels are in use, with 7 due to close by the end of April 2025. Data on rooms is not available.
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