Asylum: Hotels
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when asylum seekers will vacate the Copthorne Hotel; and how many have vacated the Copthorne Hotel to date.
Answered by Alex Norris
For the safety, security, and wellbeing of those we accommodate, we do not publicly comment on individual hotels which may or may not be utilised by the Home Office, nor do we provide details of those we accommodate at any site.
Additionally, the department does not publicly comment on the timing of closures. Instead, scheduled closures are managed through a nationally coordinated programme and communicated directly to local authority Chief Executives and local MPs when a hotel is identified for closure.
The Home Office publishes statistics on a quarterly basis detailing the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated, including those accommodated in hotels, broken down by local authority. These statistics can be found in at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support detailed datasets, year ending March 2026.
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