Home Office written question – answered on 8 February 2023.
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.
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:
Count of Hotel | |
Aberdeen | 1 |
1 | |
1 | |
Ards and North Down Borough | 1 |
Babergh | 1 |
Barnet | 4 |
2 | |
1 | |
Bedfordshire | 1 |
13 | |
Birmingham | 5 |
Blackpool | 1 |
Boston | 1 |
4 | |
Bradford | 5 |
Brent | 3 |
1 | |
Bristol, City of | 1 |
Calderdale | 3 |
Camden | 4 |
1 | |
Cardiff | 2 |
Carlisle | 1 |
Charnwood | 2 |
Cherwell | 1 |
Cheshire | 1 |
3 | |
Chesterfield | 1 |
Copeland | 1 |
Coventry | 3 |
Crawley | 3 |
Croydon | 2 |
Dacorum | 2 |
Derby | 2 |
1 | |
Doncaster | 2 |
Ealing | 4 |
3 | |
1 | |
Eastbourne | 2 |
Edinburgh | 1 |
Falkirk | 1 |
1 | |
Gateshead | 1 |
Glasgow | 1 |
Gloucester | 2 |
Greenwich | 3 |
Guildford | 1 |
Hackney | 3 |
Halton | 1 |
2 | |
Haringey | 1 |
Harrow | 2 |
Havering | 1 |
Hertsmere | 1 |
Hillingdon | 6 |
Hounslow | 7 |
Huntingdonshire | 1 |
Inverclyde | 1 |
Islington | 2 |
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 |
1 | |
1 | |
1 | |
1 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 4 |
Newham | 3 |
1 | |
1 | |
Norwich | 1 |
Nottingham | 2 |
Oldham | 1 |
1 | |
Portsmouth | 1 |
Reading | 2 |
Redbridge | 5 |
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 |
1 | |
1 | |
1 | |
1 | |
Southampton | 1 |
Southwark | 4 |
Spelthorne | 1 |
1 | |
1 | |
St. Helens | 1 |
Stockport | 1 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 1 |
Sunderland | 1 |
1 | |
Swindon | 2 |
1 | |
Tewkesbury | 1 |
1 | |
3 | |
Uttlesford | 1 |
Wakefield | 1 |
2 | |
Warrington | 1 |
Warwick | 1 |
1 | |
2 | |
1 | |
Westminster | 5 |
Wigan | 1 |
1 | |
Wirral | 1 |
Wokingham | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 2 |
Worcester | 1 |
Wychavon | 2 |
2 | |
Grand Total | 265 |
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No1 person thinks not
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