Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are housed at Catterick Garrison.

Work is ongoing to bring forward accommodation at Catterick Garrison as part of wider efforts to relieve pressure on the asylum system. The use of hotels is inappropriate for the accommodation of asylum seekers. That’s why the Government is standing up large scale sites to bring alive more suitable forms of accommodation and relieve the cost pressures to the taxpayer of using hotels.