Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels used to provide housing for asylum seekers on 1 January 2024 were contracted out to Mears Group.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum seekers in receipt of support in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. This data shows how many asylum seekers are accommodated in hotels, broken down by region, and can be found in table Asy_D09 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. This data is not broken down to show how many hotels have been contracted to specific providers as we cannot comment on commercial arrangements which are confidential.