Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Kane on 2016-03-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the level of hotel use to house asylum seekers is in each local authority area.

James Brokenshire

Under the COMPASS contracts, providers are allowed to use contingency accommodation to cope with unanticipated increase in demand, but we have made clear to providers that this is only ever acceptable in exceptional situations and asylum seekers must be moved to appropriate longer term accommodation as soon as possible. Providers will inform local authorities about short term contingency accommodation prior to its use.

Our records indicate that there are currently 22 hotels in use across 10 local authorities. This is provisional management information that is subject to daily change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics