Asylum: Housing
Lords · Question HL9613 · Tabled 17 Jul 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 31 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the use of asylum accommodation.
Answer
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint, 31 Jul 2025
When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels were one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation - with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day - and where a 70 per cent collapse in...