Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of (a) sexual assault and (b) rape have been made by asylum seekers accommodated in hotels in each of the last four years.

There are vigorous processes in place to record, manage and monitor any high profile/critical incidents that involve asylum support service users, asylum support accommodation premises or asylum support service providers. This is primarily through the High Profile Notification (HPN) system once an issue is identified by a first responder, which triggers involvement from the relevant emergency services, Asylum Accommodation & Support Contracts (AASC) and provider staff as well as intervention from the departments Safeguarding Hub.

Due to the categorisations currently used, the Home Office does not record this information in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost. We would have to manually investigate various data sources and even then, the figures would be incomplete as individuals are under no obligation to report sexual assault to the Home Office.