Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2022 to Question 77330 on Detention Centres: Manston, how many hotels proposed for potential use as contingency asylum accommodation were given approval to progress between 1 August 2022 and 5 September 2022.

Due to the nature of Manston as a Processing Centre the numbers of individuals moving in and out rapidly changes. We are committed to working closely with communities and stakeholders to ensure destitute asylum seekers are housed in safe, secure and suitable accommodation, and that they are treated with dignity while their asylum claim is considered. All appropriate options are being explored to ensure that suitable accommodation is secured as quickly as is necessary.

Between 1 September 2022 and 1 November 2022, internal management information shows that 11,104 people were transferred from the Manston processing centre to private accommodation, immigration removal centres and asylum accommodation. Records are not held in a format that permits a breakdown of transfers by final destination or accommodation type and such information could only be provided at disproportionate cost by examination of individual records

Between 1 August 2022 and 5 September 2022, 42 hotels were approved to progress for potential use as contingency asylum accommodation.