{"id":446614,"date":"2026-02-26T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446614\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:13:08","slug":"uk-asylum-claims-drop-slightly-in-2025-as-small-boat-arrivals-rise-by-13-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446614\/","title":{"rendered":"UK asylum claims drop slightly in 2025 as small boat arrivals rise by 13% &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asylum housing shifts from hotels to longer-term accommodationpublished at 10:02 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:02 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6099785c-7d85-48af-abcc-a2d5992e41c5.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Rob England<br \/>BBC Verify senior data journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number of asylum seekers housed in hotels has fallen, as more people are moved into longer-term accommodation, according to the latest Home Office figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As of December 2025, 30,657 people were staying in hotels, down 19% compared with December last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hotel use peaked at around 56,000 in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A further 72,769 people were housed in longer-term accommodation, including houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) and &#8220;other accommodation&#8221;, such as repurposed former military sites including Wethersfield in Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asylum seekers are entitled to housing if they cannot support themselves while their claim is being considered. Hotels are used when other types of accommodation is not available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ministers have pledged to end the use of asylum hotels by the end of this parliament, arguing they are significantly more expensive than longer-term housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asylum housing shifts from hotels to longer-term accommodationpublished at 10:02 GMT 10:02 GMT Rob EnglandBBC Verify senior data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-446614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}