Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children aged (a) 14 years old, (b) 15 years old, (c) 16 years old and (d) 17 years old have been accommodated in hotels in the UK since October 2021.

The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in hotels by month since October 2021 is given in the table below.

The breakdown by age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children aged (a) 14 years old, (b) 15 years old, (c) 16 years old and (d) 17 years old arriving in hotels since October 2021 is given in the table below. This information is based on their age on the date the young person arrived in the hotel

The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in hotels since the start of October 2021 is 3,256. This figure is based on arrivals in the hotel during that period, rather than those who were already accommodated in the hotels at the start of October 2021.

The hotels are in the local authorities of Kent; Brighton & Hove; East Sussex; and Warwickshire.

The average length of stay for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children housed in UK hotels since October 2021 is 16.34 days.

All the figures given above are taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.