Mentions:
1: None Our plan will end the Tory boats chaos, fix our broken asylum system and restore our border security. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) To add insult to injury, it puts the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who are deemed inadmissible - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) and military logic for the simple and obvious reason that the ability of our armed forces to recruit local - Speech Link
Found: (10) The Secretary of State must provide a single dedicated cross-government funding stream
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2024 to Question 14458 on Asylum: hotels, how many asylum seekers are being housed in UK hotel accommodation by his Department as of 17 April 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office has been clear that the use of hotels is a temporary and necessary measure to ensure we meet our statutory obligation to accommodate destitute asylum seekers. We have already made significant progress by no longer using 100 hotels for asylum seekers on 31 March 2024. A total of 150 hotels will no longer be used for accommodating asylum seekers by the beginning of May, reducing the strain on local communities.
Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data is published on a quarterly basis.
Asked by: Claire Hanna (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office has been clear that the use of hotels is a temporary and short-term measure to ensure we meet our statutory obligation to accommodate destitute asylum seekers. We have already made significant progress by ending the use of 100 hotels by 31 March 2024, including 6 in Northern Ireland.
Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data is published on a quarterly basis. The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of hotels used to house asylum seekers by region.
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2024Found: provided by the devolved administrations, such as the Welsh Government or the Scottish Government (before
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2024Found: provided by the devolved administrations, such as the Welsh Government or the Scottish Government (before
Mentions:
1: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) officials’ judgments will be hugely variable—they are placed into the care of the local authority, where - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) doubt, an individual will be treated as a child pending further observation and consideration by a local - Speech Link
Found: (10) The Secretary of State must provide a single dedicated cross-government funding stream
Found: Secretary of State must, within two months of Royal Assent to this Act, issue guidance to local
Report Apr. 19 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Twenty-Seventh Report - Government resilience: extreme weather HC 454 Report