Asylum
Commons · Question 23138 · Tabled 10 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of the number of asylum seekers entering the UK in December 2024 for (a) community cohesion and (b) the use of hotels for housing asylum seek
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 20 Jan 2025
This government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...