Asylum: Northern Ireland

(asked on 12th April 2024) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
This question was answered on 22nd April 2024

The Home Office has been clear that the use of hotels is a temporary and short-term measure to ensure we meet our statutory obligation to accommodate destitute asylum seekers. We have already made significant progress by ending the use of 100 hotels by 31 March 2024, including 6 in Northern Ireland.

Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data is published on a quarterly basis. The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of hotels used to house asylum seekers by region.

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