Asylum: Hotels
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office press release, 15 April 2026, on Asylum hotels close as government scales up use of large sites, what recent statistics her department has collated and now holds on (a) the number of asylum hotels and (b) the number of asylum seekers in each individual hotel.
Answered by Alex Norris
This Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly. We have already reduced the number of asylum seekers in asylum hotels by 35% in the past year (to the end of March 2026) and overall asylum support costs by 15% in the last financial year (to the end of March 2025).
The number of hotels currently in use as asylum accommodation, fewer than 190, remains significantly below hotel usage at its peak under the previous government in summer 2023, when more than 400 hotels were in use.
The Home Office publishes statistics on a quarterly basis detailing the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated including numbers accommodated in hotels. These statistics can be found at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.
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