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UK asylum and refugee accountability
Split small boats, asylum support, refugee schemes, and hotel secrecy properly.
This prototype turns asylum and refugee data into an accountability product. It combines official statistics, route and scheme distinctions, cost scrutiny, and public hotel evidence so users can compare places, follow the money, and see where visibility stops.
2025-12-31 local snapshot 3 current hotel sites with entity links
1 unresolved current sites
Accountability snapshot
Official route split now live
Detected arrivals via small boat across the UK.
Derived from the illegal entry routes dataset.
Latest official UK stock snapshot from the immigration groups table.
Proxy for the most visible temporary accommodation pressure.
Why this can hit harder than a normal dashboard
Hotels still drive the bill
In the first seven months of 2024/25, hotels housed 35% of people in asylum accommodation but drove 76% of contract cost.
The hidden estate is part of the story
The government publishes national hotel counts, but a full public named-site list still has to be assembled from councils, FOIs, and public documents.
Backlog pressure still feeds accommodation demand
Around 64,000 people were still waiting for an initial decision at the end of December 2025.
What counts as in scope
Route or scheme specific
Official datasets that directly identify an asylum route, refugee resettlement scheme, refugee family route, or humanitarian route.
Local route-relevant
Council statements, FOIs, planning records, or local documents that explicitly refer to asylum hotels, refugee resettlement, Afghan arrivals, Ukraine arrivals, or related local response.
Context only
General council finance, procurement, or supplier data kept as research context and never merged into public asylum or refugee charts unless a row is explicitly tied to a route or scheme.
What the product should split out
Irregular asylum route
Small boat arrivals
Use small boat or illegal entry route language for the route. Public local asylum-support data does not usually say which supported people arrived this way.
Asylum support system
Asylum seekers receiving support
Best local asylum pressure series, but not a route split. It includes people on support regardless of how they arrived.
Refugee resettlement and relocation
Afghan Resettlement Programme
Public local data usually combines Afghan pathways at programme level rather than separating ARAP and ACRS in every table.
Refugee resettlement
UK Resettlement Scheme, Mandate, and Community Sponsorship
Public resettlement outputs often group UKRS and Mandate together, with community sponsorship included within that total.
Protection-linked family route
Refugee Family Reunion
This is a family route connected to people who already have refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK.
Humanitarian route
Homes for Ukraine
Useful local route comparison layer but should never be merged into asylum accommodation totals.
Where pressure is concentrated
Latest official local-authority asylum-support snapshot as at 31 December 2025.
Named current hotel sites with entity coverage
The public estate is only partially visible. This starter ledger shows which named current sites have owner or operator links and which still sit inside the secrecy gap.
named_current partial
Bell Hotel
Epping Forest
Owner: Somani Hotels Limited
Operator: Unresolved
Last public evidence: 2025-07-30
named_current partial
Cedar Court Hotel
Wakefield
Owner: Unresolved
Operator: Cedar Court Hotels
Last public evidence: 2025-08-20
named_current unresolved
Phoenix Hotel
Epping Forest
Owner: Unresolved
Operator: Unresolved
Last public evidence: 2025-07-30
named_current partial
Stanwell Hotel
Spelthorne
Owner: Splendid Hospitality Group LLP
Operator: Unresolved
Last public evidence: 2025-10-30
Top area pages
Scotland Scotland
Glasgow City
3,835 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 58.97 | Contingency: 0
West Midlands England
Birmingham
2,637 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 22.28 | Contingency: 1,087
North West England
Liverpool
2,189 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 43.01 | Contingency: 415
London England
Hillingdon
2,133 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 64.8 | Contingency: 1,896
North West England
Manchester
1,846 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 31.31 | Contingency: 979
Yorkshire and The Humber England
Leeds
1,772 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 20.97 | Contingency: 483
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland
Belfast
1,749 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 49.63 | Contingency: 0
London England
Hounslow
1,720 people on asylum support as at 2025-12-31.
Rate per 10,000: 57.44 | Contingency: 1,466
Public money layer now live
prime contract scope asylum_support
Asylum accommodation and support contract regional scope: Serco
Home Office -> Serco
Current regional contract structure
prime contract scope asylum_support
Asylum accommodation and support contract regional scope: Mears
Home Office -> Mears
Current regional contract structure
prime contract scope asylum_support
Asylum accommodation and support contract regional scope: Clearsprings
Home Office -> Clearsprings Ready Homes
Current regional contract structure
Release diary
2026-02-26
National asylum statistics updated
Year ending December 2025 figures published, including 107,200 people on support and 31,000 in hotels.
2026-01-23
Committee report confirms 197 hotels in use
Home Affairs Committee report captures the official count of hotels in use as of 5 January 2026.
2025-11-27
Local authority asylum and resettlement tables updated
Latest public local release remained the year ending September 2025, with Glasgow still highest by count.
2025-06-12
Home Office publishes hotel cost factsheet
Average daily hotel cost for 2024/25 published at GBP 5.77 million.