United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 38279
Asylum: Hotels
Introduced
22 July 2021
Last action
10 September 2021 · Answer
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Answered
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Asylum
Source updated
10 September 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the suitability of hotel detention for people seeking asylum.
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22 July 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the suitability of hotel detention for people seeking asylum.
Source: Commons
10 September 2021
Answer
The Home Office are not detaining asylum seekers in hotels; we are accommodating them. Our accommodation providers do not have enforcement powers and those we are accommodating are free to come and go as they please. All sites have security staff, and the...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-22/38279
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1349505
- uk · wq-1349505 · source updated 10 September 2021