US EditionAsylum hotel numbers up 8% on last year under Labour, Home Office figures show
The 8% increase in asylum seekers housed in UK hotels reflects a rise in claims to 111,000, the highest since 2002, amid ongoing Channel crossings and legal challenges.
- On Thursday, Home Office data showed 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels at June's end, an 8% rise during Labour government's first year in office.
- In the year to June, 111,084 asylum applicants increased pressure on Home Office contingency accommodation, including hotels, as nearly 28,000 small-boat Channel crossings worsened demand amid lack of longer-term accommodation.
- A spending review shows hotel accommodation costs total £1.3 billion of £1.7 billion while total asylum spending fell 12% to £4.76 billion in 2024/25, the National Audit Office found.
- On Tuesday a High Court judge granted Epping Forest District Council a temporary injunction blocking asylum seekers from The Bell Hotel, and ministers brace for further legal challenges as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said, `We inherited a broken immigration and asylum system that the previous Government left in chaos`.
- Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to end hotel use for asylum seekers by parliament end 2029, while Home Office backlog and processing figures show improvement alongside a new returns deal with Iraq and a 'one-in, one-out' pilot with Paris.
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In Britain, more than 111,000 asylum applications have been submitted within a year, but the biggest problem facing the government is housing. Tens of thousands of people live in hotels.
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NotreTemps.comSince the beginning of the year, nearly 28,000 migrants have arrived across the English Channel on makeshift boats, a situation that puts pressure on Keir Starmer's Labour government.
Over 111,000 people have applied for asylum in the UK over the past 12 months, a record announced when the Labour government, which had promised to reduce immigration, is accused by the opposition of "losing border control".
Asylum applications hit new record high while backlog drops, figures show
Home Office data reveals 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025. The number of asylum applications in the UK has reached a new record high while the backlog in cases has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in four years, official figures show. A total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began in 2001. The numbe…
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