Asylum: Hotels
Commons · Question 22629 · Tabled 8 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with (a) the Secretary of State for the Home Department and (b) other Cabinet colleagues to reduce the amount of Overseas Development Assistance spent
Answer
Answered by Anneliese Dodds, 17 Jan 2025
The Home Secretary is committed to ensuring asylum costs fall and has already taken measures to reduce the backlog and will end the use of expensive hotel accommodation. We expect these plans to create more space in the Official Development Assistance (OD...