How many asylum seekers are in hotels?

The Home Office reports the number of people receiving asylum support, including how many are in contingency accommodation such as hotels, in its quarterly immigration system statistics. Local authority breakdowns are in the asylum support tables.

The cost of asylum accommodation is reported in the Home Office annual report and accounts, and the National Audit Office has audited it.

Official sources: Asylum support datasets

The latest figure

The newest value is at Home Office. More on it: Small boat arrivals (English Channel).

When is the next figure out?

Last-7-days table updated every day; .ods time series from 1 January 2018 updated each Friday. Machine route: the GOV.UK Content API (no key) returns the page as JSON with the daily table in details.body; https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats lists the current .ods time-series attachment URL, which changes each week

Every official release due in the next two weeks is on the release calendar.

Terms used in this answer

• Asylum backlog
  The number of asylum claims awaiting a decision. Usually means claims awaiting an initial Home Office decision, not appeals.
• Refugee status
  Protection granted to someone who has shown a well-founded fear of persecution in their own country under the 1951 Refugee Convention.
• Provisional figures
  Early estimates published before all data are in, so users get timely figures. They are expected to be updated when later data arrive.
• Administrative data
  Information collected by organisations while running a service, such as tax records, benefit claims or hospital activity, and then used to produce statistics.
• Calendar year
  January to December. Used for GDP annual totals, registered deaths and many international comparisons, unlike the April to March financial year.
• Revisions
  Changes to previously published figures, made when more complete data, improved methods or updated seasonal factors become available. A normal part of official statistics.

Where the figures come from

• Higher education and student finance statistics (HESA, Student Loans Company, Office for Students and DfE)
  Official figures on UK student numbers, international students, student loan debt, graduate earnings, university finances and apprenticeships.
• UK population and vital statistics (ONS, National Records of Scotland and NISRA)
  Where to find official UK figures on births, fertility, baby names, marriage, divorce, households, population estimates, projections and the census.
• Home Office statistics (immigration, borders and policing)
  Find Home Office figures on small boat arrivals, asylum, hotels, visas, returns, detention, police numbers and stop and search, and how to read them.

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