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Written Question
Asylum: Hotels
Tuesday 14th January 2025

Asked by: Peter Bedford (Conservative - Mid Leicestershire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and which hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in Mid Leicestershire constituency; and how many asylum seekers there are in each hotel.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

For the safety and security of residents and staff at its accommodation sites, the Home Office does not publish details of sites in use.

However, data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, including hotels, and by local authority can be found within the Asy_D11 tab for our most recent statistics release: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.


Written Question
Home Office: Staff
Tuesday 10th December 2024

Asked by: Peter Bedford (Conservative - Mid Leicestershire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employee settlement agreements there were in her Department in each year since 2020; and what the total value of such agreements is.

Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)

This information can only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Deportation: Albania
Tuesday 26th November 2024

Asked by: Peter Bedford (Conservative - Mid Leicestershire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Albanian nationals have been deported in 2024; and whether any individuals deported in 2024 have since re-entered the UK.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

Available statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) and their nationality are published on a quarterly basis in the Returns Detailed Datasets, which are available at: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The next update will be published on 28 November 2024.

Any foreign national who enters the UK in breach of a deportation order will be returned to custody to finish the remainder of their custodial sentence. Entering in breach of a deportation order is a criminal offence under section 24(1)(a) of the 1971 Act, with a maximum sentence of five years.


Written Question
Asylum: Mid Leicestershire
Thursday 5th September 2024

Asked by: Peter Bedford (Conservative - Mid Leicestershire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants are resident in hotels in Mid Leicestershire constituency.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation is published by the Government in table ASY D_11 here: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).