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Asylum: Children

Question for Home Office

UIN 61090, tabled on 11 October 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been housed in hotels since October 2021; and in which local authorities hotels used for that purpose were located.

Answered on

18 October 2022

The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in hotels by month since October 2021 is given in the table below.

Oct-21

148

Nov-21

329

Dec-21

194

Jan-22

101

Feb-22

30

Mar-22

314

Apr-22

198

May-22

223

Jun-22

253

Jul-22

238

Aug-22

585

Sep-22

499

The breakdown by age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children aged (a) 14 years old, (b) 15 years old, (c) 16 years old and (d) 17 years old arriving in hotels since October 2021 is given in the table below. This information is based on their age on the date the young person arrived in the hotel

Age

Number

14

260

15

639

16

1,191

17

1,051

The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in hotels since the start of October 2021 is 3,256. This figure is based on arrivals in the hotel during that period, rather than those who were already accommodated in the hotels at the start of October 2021.

The hotels are in the local authorities of Kent; Brighton & Hove; East Sussex; and Warwickshire.

The average length of stay for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children housed in UK hotels since October 2021 is 16.34 days.

All the figures given above are taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.

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Home Office
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