Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which local authorities are housing (a) refugees and (b) asylum seekers in hotels as of 7 November 2022.

The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.

The Home Office also publishes data on asylum seekers and refugees in accommodation in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ Immigration statistics, year ending June 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). We do not differentiate between hotels and other types of initial accommodation. Data is published on a quarterly basis, the latest information was published 23 September 2022.