Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2023 to Question 152302 on Refugees: Afghanistan, how many Afghan citizens are living in temporary accommodation in the UK; and how many and what proportion of these are children.

9,483 people, around half of whom are children, are currently living in hotel or serviced accommodation. This figure changes frequently as new arrivals enter the UK and others move into settled accommodation.

The above is the best available operational data, as of 31st December 2022.

More information on those that we are temporarily accommodating in hotels can be viewed at:

Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).