Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels in each of the last five years.

The financial year 2020-21 was the first year of hotel occupancy and we were not able to totally disaggregate hotel spend from wider asylum accommodation costs.

The financial year 2021-22 financial reporting shows we spent £922m on hotel accommodation.

As part of the New Plan for Immigration, we are reducing the current almost £5million daily cost of using hotels to accommodate migrants through the new asylum reception centre at Linton-on-Ouse and by creating a fairer asylum dispersal system.