Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people awaiting a decision on an asylum application are accommodated in hotels in the UK as of 16 January 2023.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on applications awaiting an initial decision is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum applications, decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Separately, data on asylum seekers in receipt of support, including those accommodated in hotels, is published in table Asy_D09 of the ‘Asylum support’ detailed datasets. Asy_D09 will also include those on support who have already had a decision.

The latest data relates to 30 September 2023. The data shows a snapshot as at the last day of the quarter. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of each workbook.

More recent provisional data on the number of applications awaiting an initial decision can be found in table IMB_02 of the Statistics relating to Illegal Migration publication. The latest data relates to 28 December 2023. This data is not directly comparable with that published in the Immigration Systems Statistics as it will contain some duplicates.

Finalised data on applications awaiting a decision and asylum seekers in hotel accommodation as of 31 December 2023 is due to be published on 29 February 2024.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.