Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost per night, including the cost of safeguarding, of placing an unaccompanied child seeking asylum in a hotel while waiting for a local authority placement.

The cost of accommodating unaccompanied asylum seeking children is subject to change depending on the numbers being accommodated. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts