Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2025 to Question 70873, whether her Department has commissioned the use of hotel accommodation in the London Borough of Havering for the purpose of housing asylum seekers since 10 February 2025.

No new hotels have been commissioned to accommodate asylum seekers in the London Borough of Havering since 10 February 2025. When a hotel has been identified for use as contingency accommodation, Home Office officials will write to the local authority Chief Executive and the constituency MP to inform them of plans to accommodate asylum seekers there.