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Asylum: Housing |
| Question ID: |
1824690 |
| UIN: |
HL9613 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
655 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
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Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the use of asylum accommodation. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-31 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Hanson of Flint
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Hanson of Flint
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| Answer text: |
When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels were one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent collapse in... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |