Asylum: Northern Ireland

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November to Question 86410 on Asylum: Northern Ireland, what the cost to the public purse was of the 22 hotels that have been in use over the past six months.

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1. 21 November 2022

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November to Question 86410 on Asylum: Northern Ireland, what the cost to the public purse was of the 22 hotels that have been in use over the past six months.

   Source: Commons

2. 24 November 2022

   Answer

   There are currently more than 37,000 asylum seekers in hotels costing the UK taxpayer £5.6 million a day. Occupancy levels vary and the number of people flowing through contingency hotel accommodation in any one month is not recorded.Accommodation costs a...

   Source: Written answer

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