Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from (a) Afghanistan, (b) Eritrea, (c) Iran, (d) Sudan and (e) Syria are accommodated in hotels under Part 5 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

The United Kingdom has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and other support whilst their application for asylum is being considered as set out under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. The Home Office publishes quarterly data on the number of asylum seekers and their dependents who are supported including a breakdown by support type, nationality and location of accommodation in table Asy_D11 of the Immigration Quarterly statistics asylum and resettlement datasets. The latest published data tables can be found at: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of these statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated by specific accommodation setting. These figures are not available in a reportable format and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.