Refugees: Afghanistan

(asked on 13th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Oral Statement from the Minister for Veteran Affairs of 13 December 2023 on Afghan Resettlement Update, Official Report, column 911, how many and what proportion of hotels will the Government extend contracts with to house Afghans beyond 31 December 2023.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 19th December 2023

The Government remains committed to ending the systemic use of hotels, and we do not plan to open new hotels to meet this increased demand.

The information requested on hotel contracts is not publicly available, however, a small number of hotels with existing contracts will be extended for a limited time period to help accommodate ACRS arrivals who have yet to be matched to settled housing solutions in the United Kingdom.

The latest published statistics on Afghan resettlement, up until the end of September, may be viewed at: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The next publication of Afghan resettlement data sets is due to be published around 22 February 2024.

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