Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers have absconded from the Dilkhusa Hotel in Ilfracombe since the hotel was adopted by the Home Office.
The Home Office has no power to hold asylum seekers in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.
The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of adult asylum seekers leaving hotels. These figures are not available.