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Asylum Accommodation

Monday 7 July 2025 · 2 questions

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Answered 1 Partly answered 1 Not answered 0

Key points

  • Home Office is not buying hotels for asylum seeker accommodation
  • Number of asylum seekers in hotel accommodation decreased by 15% by March
  • Government committed to ending use of hotels for asylum seekers by end of Parliament

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Charlie Dewhirst Con Bridlington and The Wolds
Asylum & Refugees
Context

Reports suggest the Home Office is buying hotels to house asylum seekers, which appears contrary to the government's manifesto pledge to end hotel usage. Bridlington and The Wolds residents are concerned about this.

Question

People are rightly concerned by reports that the Home Office is buying hotels to house asylum seekers. That appears to be completely at odds with the Government’s manifesto pledge to end the use of hotels. Will the Home Secretary or her Minister confirm to the House whether those reports are true or not true? Will she reassure my constituents in Bridlington and The Wolds that there are no plans to house illegal migrants in facilities in our local area?

Answer from The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Dame Angela Eagle)

The Home Office is not buying hotels. As for the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, there are currently 61 service users housed in his area, which is less than 15% of the quota, and there are zero hotels.

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Q2 Joe Robertson Con Isle of Wight East
Asylum & Refugees
Context

The number of people in hotel accommodation for asylum seekers has increased despite the government's pledge to end the use of hotels by the end of this Parliament.

Question

The Government may not be buying hotels, but it is filling them up with asylum seekers. The number has gone up in the past year, not down, yet the Government say that they will reduce them to zero by the end of this Parliament. Will the Minister confirm whether the commitment to end the use of asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament is a guaranteed pledge on which we can judge their success or failure—yes or no?

Answer from The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Dame Angela Eagle)

By March this year, 15% fewer people were in hotel accommodation than at the end of 2024. We are saving money on the chaos that we inherited from the Conservatives, and we have announced that we will end the use of hotels by the end of this Parliament.

Partly answered

Not addressed: The specific pledge being a binding commitment for evaluation was not explicitly confirmed.

How: Vague Language

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