Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have been made at the asylum intake unit at Kent since 1 October 2020; and how many of those applicants have been (a) detained in military barracks and other such temporary alternative asylum accommodation sites, (b) detained in immigration detention centres and (c) placed in hotels and other such asylum accommodation under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

The Home Office does not publish data on the number of asylum applications made at the Asylum Intake Unit at Kent or breakdown data on claims made at Kent that are (a) detained in military barracks and other such temporary alternative asylum accommodation sites, (b) detained in immigration detention centres and (c) placed in hotels and other such asylum accommodation under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

However, the Home Office does publish data on how many people applied for asylum broken down by location (in-country or at Port) and can be found in the Immigration Statistics;, Asy_D01: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets

Additionally, the Home Office does publish data on the number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority and can be found in the Immigration Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support

Furthermore, the Home Office does not detain anyone in supported temporary asylum accommodation. Our accommodation providers do not have enforcement powers and those we are accommodating have free movement.