Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reassess the assumption within the Home Office Spending Review settlement that hotel use for asylum-seekers will end within this Parliament; and what assessment they have made of the Office of Budget Responsibility's projection that maintaining current asylum spending levels would add £1.4 billion to the Home Office budget by 2028–29.

The Government are working to move asylum seekers into alternative accommodation such as military sites, to ease pressure on communities across the country.

No action has been taken on the assessment of the Office of Budget Responsibility at this point. However, we can confirm spend is already coming down below the level set out here.