Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan (a) principals and (b) dependents are being housed in hotel accommodation under the (i) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (ii) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.

The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served the UK.

The latest published Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) show that (up to the end of December 2023) we have brought around 27,900 people to safety from Afghanistan and the region.

These statistics also show that:

• We have resettled 10,520 people under all three of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) pathways;
• We have relocated 14,423 under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP); and

• 125 people, around half of whom are children, were living in interim accommodation (i.e. hotels/serviced accommodation) at the end of December 2023.

Afghan operational data is viewable at Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).