Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of asylum seekers who are based in hotels and are being supported by her Department who have been waiting for their asylum interview for (a) three to six months, (b) six to nine months and (c) nine to 12 months and (d) over a year.

The Home Office are unable to provide data for the estimate proportion of asylum seekers based in hotels being supported, who have had their asylum interview and are awaiting a decision or the numbers who have been waiting for their asylum interview for three to six months, six to nine months and nine to 12 months and over a year as this information is not held in a reportable format.

However, the Home Office can provide the numbers of asylum seekers awaiting an asylum decision by duration and the number of asylum seekers in receipt of support and can be found at Asy_04 and Asy_07b of the published immigration statistics:

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