Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress his Department has made on ending the use of hotels for asylum seekers in seaside towns.

We are making significant progress in closing hotels, with 50 due to be closed by the end of January, and more in the coming months.

We are also working to move asylum seekers into alternative, cheaper accommodation and have successfully cleared the legacy backlog by deciding more than 112,000 cases, while maintaining the integrity of the system.