Number of asylum seekers housed in hotels up 8% in a year, Home Office data shows | Immigration and asylum

According to new data, the number of asylum seekers in hotels increased by 8% per year and rose to 32.059.

The data also shows that the government has committed asylum applications much faster, and 71,000 cases expect approval, and that it is related to 91,000 people compared to 134,000 two years ago.

The figures come after deciding that more than 100 applications should be abolished in a court ESSEX, and they come in the midst of oysters growing from councils to host asylum seekers through legal proceedings.

The Supreme Court’s decision led to the preparation of ministers for more legal difficulties from all over the country and the government’s pressure to find other places to host people.

The latest home office figures, published on Thursday as part of the usual three -month migration statistics, cover Labour’s first year.

At the same point a year ago, there were 32.059 asylum seekers from 29,585, 29,585, when conservatives were still in power but fell slightly in the figure at the end of March.

The latest number is below the 56,042 asylum seeker summit at hotels under Tories at the end of September 2023.

For the first time in four years, the accumulation of Asylum applications fell below 100,000 people. Currently, more than 70,000 cases related to approximately 91,000 people – 18% compared to the previous year and the lowest level since September 2021.

In the year ending in June 2025, the Ministry of Interior forcibly lifted 9,100 people – one quarter of the previous year. More than half were foreign national criminals who were deported at the end of the sentences.

Enver Bringing back the asylum system from the threshold of the collapse is a real success in the first year of the government. The increase in shelter decisions can begin to rebuild their lives earlier and the use of expensive hotels may end faster. ”

The Minister of Interior Yette Cooper said: “The action we have done in the last 12 months – the increasing returns of unsuccessful asylum seekers, to reduce the asylum costs by 11%, to overcome the order of the failed asylum appeal system and to put an end to the use of Chaotic,” he said.

On Tuesday, the conservative authority in the EPPING Forest won a temporary Supreme Supreme Court precautionary decision to remove people from Bell Hotel.

The Supreme Court should leave approximately 140 immigrant hotels after imposing a temporary precautionary measures against them to stay there.

Wirral and Tamworth Councils, operated by Labour, reported that asylum seekers in their regions think about legal difficulties to close their houses.

On Tuesday, Shadow House Secretary Chris Philp chosen three conservative councils considering the legal process to close shelter hotels in their regions.

When asked how many TORY Council considering the legal process, BBC said to Breakfast: “There is definitely a number of active thinking. Broxbourne, who is next to EPPING, is one of them.

“So, following the EPPING decision in the country, there are many and lower looking at it.”

Whitehall sources, the government is expected to object to the EPPING decision, he said.

Charles Falconer, a workers’ chief prosecutor of Starmer, who served as Justice Secretary under Tony Blair and previously was Starmer’s Shadow Chief Public Prosecutor, called on the ministers to appeal.

BBC Radio 4 said to his program today that “causes big problems” because it leads to the expectation that some asylum hotels can be closed ”, but without showing which.

Orum I encourage the government very strongly – I don’t know what to do – in order to object and gain certainty, first of all, it must be closed… And the second is to deal with a reasonable time scale problem and third to deal with this very laborious issue: that is, the demonstrations other than these hostels are more likely to be closed. ”

According to government figures, home office expenditures for asylum in the UK took place at £ 4.76 billion in 2024-25. It covers all home office costs, including total, direct cash support and accommodation, as well as wider personnel and other migration and border activities.

If the asylum seekers and their families are waiting for their claims to be evaluated or have confirmed a request and have not available enough accommodation, they may be present in temporary accommodation known as emergency accommodation units.

When there is not enough housing, otherwise, the house office, which has a legal obligation to provide accommodation to asylum seekers who will be poor, can carry people to alternatives such as big areas such as hotels and old military bases.