Make A Difference
Find out how you can help make a difference to the availability of data on illegal migrant hotels.
The Information Gap
You can make a difference. For reasons best known to this Labour government, there’s a dearth of information on the location of migrant hotels. You simply will not find an official list of them anywhere. There’s an even greater lack of data concerning the location of homes of multiple occupancy (or HMOs) also housing migrants.
We don’t believe that’s right given the public interest in knowing where these sites are, how they affect the communities in which they’re sited, and the eye-watering amount of taxpayers’ money spent on them every day. Nor do we believe this is fair given the comparative lack of facilities and services provided to other groups who also have a right to be in the UK (for example, the poor, the homeless, military veterans… the list is endless).
Beyond transparency, accountability and fairness, the national debate is quickly moving to one of safety and security. We have a right to know where these sites are. It’s in the public interest.
Just ask yourself, “do you know who is living in your neighbourhood, and just how safe do you really feel?”
You Are Our Eyes On The Ground
You, the public, are our best source of intelligence on the location of migrant hotels and HMOs.
There are more and more migrants arriving every week. This drives an incremental requirement for more and more capacity. Additionally, the government has a strategy of moving migrants out of hotels and into HMOs.
All this creates significant churn in the government’s portfolio of migrant accommodation locations. To keep our database up-to-date, we need to know as soon as new locations open and existing locations close.
How Exactly Can I Help?
We need to keep our existing hotel database up-to-date, and create a new database for Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs).
Please let us know, using the form below, when you spot a new location you believe may be being used to house migrants.
How to spot a migrant hotel:
- Most existing hotel staff are laid off once a hotel is designated for use as migrant accommodation.
- There will be no rooms available to book on the hotel’s website.
- Security fencing and signage is likely to be erected around the hotel’s perimeter.
- Additional security staff will also be deployed on the site.
- The hotel will be closed to the public. If you try and visit the public bar or restaurant you will be declined access.
- You may see an increase in the number of fighting age men wandering around the immediate local area.
Please provide as much information as possible. As a minimum we will require the name of the establishment and its address. If you are able to provide supporting information (e.g. links to local news articles, social posts, etc.) all the better. We are also interested in knowing if an existing migrant hotel or HMO closes.
You don’t have to give us your real name and email address – the form doesn’t validate those (but we obviously can’t reply to you if you don’t).
Submit An Intelligence Report
Your Privacy
We treat all submissions with the strictest confidence and delete them as soon as they’re read/processed. You don’t have to give us your real name and address – the form doesn’t validate those. However, we obviously can’t reply to you if you wish us to do so and you don’t include a valid email address.
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One of the main objectives of this site is to inform the public about locations being used to house migrants in their area. The sites are not classified or officially secret, but the government refuses to publish an official list of them. We believe the people paying for these facilities have a right to know where they are.
Please help create this transparency by sharing a link to this site on your socials. All you need to do is click on the relevant link(s) above.