Asylum: Hotels

Home Office written question – answered on 8 February 2023.

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Photo of Preet Kaur Gill Preet Kaur Gill Shadow Secretary of State for International Development

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are currently being used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers; and if she will provide a breakdown by local authority.

Photo of Robert Jenrick Robert Jenrick The Minister for Immigration

As of 01/09/2022 (to align with the date of the latest Published Stats):

There were 265 Contingency Hotel sites in use for temporary accommodation. Please find below breakdown by LA:

Local Authority

Count of Hotel

Aberdeen

1

Antrim and Newtownabbey

1

Ards and North Down

1

Ards and North Down Borough

1

Babergh

1

Barnet

4

Barrow-in-Furness

2

Basingstoke and Deane

1

Bedfordshire

1

Belfast City

13

Birmingham

5

Blackpool

1

Boston

1

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

4

Bradford

5

Brent

3

Brighton and Hove

1

Bristol, City of

1

Calderdale

3

Camden

4

Cannock Chase

1

Cardiff

2

Carlisle

1

Charnwood

2

Cherwell

1

Cheshire

1

Cheshire East

3

Chesterfield

1

Copeland

1

Coventry

3

Crawley

3

Croydon

2

Dacorum

2

Derby

2

Derry City and Strabane

1

Doncaster

2

Ealing

4

East Lindsey

3

East Riding

1

Eastbourne

2

Edinburgh

1

Falkirk

1

Folkestone and Hythe

1

Gateshead

1

Glasgow

1

Gloucester

2

Greenwich

3

Guildford

1

Hackney

3

Halton

1

Hammersmith and Fulham

2

Haringey

1

Harrow

2

Havering

1

Hertsmere

1

Hillingdon

6

Hounslow

7

Huntingdonshire

1

Inverclyde

1

Islington

2

Kensington and Chelsea

6

Kingston upon Hull, City of

2

Kingston upon Thames

1

Kirklees

5

Knowsley

1

Lambeth

3

Lancaster

2

Leeds

4

Leicester

2

Lewisham

1

Liverpool

4

Luton

2

Manchester

1

Merton

1

Mid and East Antrim

1

Mid Sussex

1

Milton Keynes

1

Mole Valley

1

Newcastle upon Tyne

4

Newham

3

North Somerset

1

North West Leicestershire

1

Norwich

1

Nottingham

2

Oldham

1

Perth and Kinross

1

Portsmouth

1

Reading

2

Redbridge

5

Reigate and Banstead

2

Renfrewshire

1

Rochdale

2

Rochford

2

Rotherham

2

Rugby

2

Rushcliffe

1

Rushmoor

1

Sandwell

1

Scarborough

1

Selby

1

Sheffield

3

Slough

1

Slough

1

Solihull

1

South Derbyshire

1

South Gloucestershire

1

South Lanarkshire

1

South Ribble

1

Southampton

1

Southwark

4

Spelthorne

1

St Albans

1

St Helens

1

St. Helens

1

Stockport

1

Stockton-on-Tees

1

Sunderland

1

Surrey Heath

1

Swindon

2

Test Valley

1

Tewkesbury

1

TOTAL HOTELS

1

Tower Hamlets

3

Uttlesford

1

Wakefield

1

Waltham Forest

2

Warrington

1

Warwick

1

Welwyn Hatfield

1

West Berkshire

2

West Northamptonshire

1

Westminster

5

Wigan

1

Windsor and Maidenhead

1

Wirral

1

Wokingham

1

Wolverhampton

2

Worcester

1

Wychavon

2

Wyre Forest

2

Grand Total

265

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