Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are in (a) initial and (b) temporary hotel accommodation.

The number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority, although not broken down into hotels or other accommodation, can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The latest publication (March 2022) can be found here Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), under the document Asylum seekers in receipt of support (second edition).

The data published at the end of June have been recently removed and are being investigated. An update will be provided in the next Immigration Statistics release.