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Hotels in use 197 As of 2026-01-05 Official count reported to the Home Affairs Committee.
Follow the hotel, then follow the chain that sits behind it.
This page is about the asylum accommodation estate, not every migration route. The job is to make the visible estate, the hidden estate, and the unresolved ownership chain legible on one public surface.
Official hotel pressure
Official hotel-use signals and public evidence tracking need to sit side by side. Otherwise the visible estate disappears behind national headlines.
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People in asylum hotels 31,000 End of Dec 2025 Asylum support accommodation figure, not a refugee-scheme total.
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Daily hotel cost GBP 5.77m 2024/25 average Home Office stated average daily hotel cost.
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Hotel cost share 76% First 7 months of 2024/25 Hotels housed 35% of those in asylum accommodation but drove most accommodation cost.
Regional visibility pattern
The hotel ledger is still partial, but it is already regional enough to show where named sites cluster and where unnamed public acknowledgements are doing the hiding.
Current named hotel sites by region
East of England currently leads the starter ledger on named current sites.
Unnamed publicly acknowledged sites by region
East Midlands currently leads the live ledger on unnamed site acknowledgements.
Unresolved chain watchlist
These current sites best show where naming, entity coverage, provider mapping, and integrity signals still need to be held together.
unresolved named_current high
Phoenix Hotel
Epping Forest, East of England
Owner Not yet resolved
Operator Not yet resolved
Prime provider Serco
Integrity signals 1
People housed People total not published
Named site but owner and operator unresolved
The site is publicly named by the council but the starter ledger does not yet have a strong owner or operator document trail.
partial named_current high
Cedar Court Hotel
Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber
Owner Not yet resolved
Operator Cedar Court Hotels
Prime provider Mears
Integrity signals 1
People housed People total not published
Trade brand identified but legal operator still unresolved
The site is linked to the Cedar Court Hotels brand but the current operating company is not yet pinned down in the public starter ledger.
partial named_current high
Stanwell Hotel
Spelthorne, South East
Owner Splendid Hospitality Group LLP
Operator Not yet resolved
Prime provider Clearsprings
Integrity signals 1
People housed People total not published
Group owner documented but property vehicle still unresolved
The starter ledger can tie the site to Splendid Hospitality Group but not yet to the exact freehold or property SPV behind the hotel.
partial named_current high
Bell Hotel
Epping Forest, East of England
Owner Somani Hotels Limited
Operator Not yet resolved
Prime provider Serco
Integrity signals 0
People housed People total not published
Named current sites with entity status
named_current partial high
Bell Hotel
Epping Forest
Owner: Somani Hotels Limited
Operator: Not yet resolved
Prime provider: Serco
Integrity signals: 0
Last public evidence: 2025-07-30
named_current partial high
Cedar Court Hotel
Wakefield
Owner: Not yet resolved
Operator: Cedar Court Hotels
Prime provider: Mears
Integrity signals: 1
Last public evidence: 2025-08-20
named_current unresolved high
Phoenix Hotel
Epping Forest
Owner: Not yet resolved
Operator: Not yet resolved
Prime provider: Serco
Integrity signals: 1
Last public evidence: 2025-07-30
named_current partial high
Stanwell Hotel
Spelthorne
Owner: Splendid Hospitality Group LLP
Operator: Not yet resolved
Prime provider: Clearsprings
Integrity signals: 1
Last public evidence: 2025-10-30
Unnamed areas that prove the secrecy gap
3 unnamed sites
West Northamptonshire
Public hotel count without names.
Last public reference: 2025-08-21
2 unnamed sites 191 people reported
Perth and Kinross
Public count and occupancy report without named sites.
Last public reference: 2025-08-14
1 unnamed site
East Lindsey
Public hotel count without names.
Last public reference: 2025-08-20
Prime provider exposure in the visible estate
2 named current sites
Serco
North West, Midlands, East of England
1 named current site
Mears
North East, Yorkshire and The Humber, Scotland, Northern Ireland
1 named current site
Clearsprings
South of England, Wales
What the visible estate already proves
Named does not mean resolved
3 of the 4 current named sites have only partial owner or operator coverage, and 1 remain unresolved. Public naming is only the first step in the chain.
The secrecy gap is regional, not abstract
East Midlands currently leads the live ledger on unnamed publicly acknowledged sites, showing how councils can confirm hotel use without publishing the full estate.
Visible concentration is already uneven
East of England currently has the largest count of named current sites in the starter ledger, which means public hotel scrutiny is already clustering geographically.
Explorer and shareable filters
These controls apply to the visibility and starter ledgers below, and the filter state stays in the URL so the exact evidence slice can be shared.
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Area visibility ledger
This table keeps named sites, unnamed acknowledgements, and the last public reference on one line for each area in the live hotel starter ledger.
| Area | Region | Visible named sites | Unnamed acknowledged sites | Last public date | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Northamptonshire | East Midlands | Current named: 0 Historical named: 0 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 3 sites People total not published | 2025-08-21 | Source |
| Epping Forest | East of England | Current named: 2 Historical named: 0 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 0 sites People total not published | 2025-07-30 | Source |
| Perth and Kinross | Scotland | Current named: 0 Historical named: 0 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 2 sites 191 people reported | 2025-08-14 | Source |
| Coventry | West Midlands | Current named: 0 Historical named: 3 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 0 sites People total not published | 2024-06-03 | Source |
| Spelthorne | South East | Current named: 1 Historical named: 0 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 0 sites People total not published | 2025-10-30 | Source |
| Wakefield | Yorkshire and The Humber | Current named: 1 Historical named: 0 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 0 sites People total not published | 2025-08-20 | Source |
| East Lindsey | East Midlands | Current named: 0 Historical named: 0 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 1 site People total not published | 2025-08-20 | Source |
| Rushcliffe | East Midlands | Current named: 0 Historical named: 1 Parliamentary refs: 0 | 0 sites People total not published | 2023-04-05 | Source |
| Gatwick area | South East | Current named: 0 Historical named: 0 Parliamentary refs: 1 | 0 sites People total not published | 2026-02-05 | Source |
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Full starter ledger
| Site | Status | Area | Coverage | Linked entities | Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Hotel | current | Epping Forest East of England | partial named_current Prime: Serco | Somani Hotels Limited | freeholder | high 03929881 | No live integrity signal in starter ledger. |
| Cedar Court Hotel | current | Wakefield Yorkshire and The Humber | partial named_current Prime: Mears | Cedar Court Hotels | operator | medium | warning | Trade brand identified but legal operator still unresolved |
| Phoenix Hotel | current | Epping Forest East of England | unresolved named_current Prime: Serco | No publishable owner or operator link yet. | warning | Named site but owner and operator unresolved |
| Stanwell Hotel | current | Spelthorne South East | partial named_current Prime: Clearsprings | Splendid Hospitality Group LLP | owner_group | medium OC331910 | info | Group owner documented but property vehicle still unresolved |
| Allesley Hotel | historical | Coventry West Midlands | unresolved named_historical | No publishable owner or operator link yet. | No live integrity signal in starter ledger. |
| Belvoir Hotel | historical | Rushcliffe East Midlands | unresolved named_historical | No publishable owner or operator link yet. | No live integrity signal in starter ledger. |
| Novotel | historical | Coventry West Midlands | unresolved named_historical | No publishable owner or operator link yet. | No live integrity signal in starter ledger. |
| Quality Hotel | historical | Coventry West Midlands | unresolved named_historical | No publishable owner or operator link yet. | No live integrity signal in starter ledger. |
| Copthorne Hotel | unknown | Gatwick area South East | partial parliamentary_reference | Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Limited | brand_operator | low 01265742 | info | Parliamentary reference without full site corroboration |
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Current limitations
The estate is still only partly visible. These are the main reasons the hotel picture remains incomplete.
The named hotel ledger is intentionally incomplete because the Home Office does not publish a full public site list.
Owner and operator links are only published when the documentary trail is strong enough to support the match.
Prime provider mapping uses the current regional asylum accommodation contract structure and should not be treated as a historical site-by-site contract proof.
Parliamentary-reference rows stay in the ledger to show visibility gaps, but they are not treated as fully corroborated current hotels without stronger local evidence.