Asylum: Havering

Home Office written question – answered at on 10 February 2025.

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Photo of Julia Lopez Julia Lopez Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has commissioned the use of hotel accommodation in the London Borough of Havering for the purpose of housing asylum seekers since 10 October 2024.

Photo of Julia Lopez Julia Lopez Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made any revision to the process of notifying hon. Members before asylum hotels are established within their constituency.

Photo of Angela Eagle Angela Eagle The Minister of State, Home Department

No new hotels have been commissioned to accommodate asylum seekers in the London Borough of Havering since 10 October 2024.

When a hotel has been identified for use as contingency accommodation, Home Office officials will write to the local authority Chief Executive and the constituency MP to inform them of plans to accommodate asylum seekers there.

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