Asylum: Hotels
Commons · Question 40499 · Tabled 24 Mar 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 1 Apr 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...