Asylum hotel deaths ‘twice as high’ as Home Office admitted

Government accused of downplaying toll after requests from charities reveal discrepancies

Ninety-five people have died in asylum accommodation since April 2016, almost double the figure recently admitted by the government, raising suspicions the Home Office has deliberately downplayed the death toll.

And the data reveals that in the past two years there has been a particularly sharp increase in the number of deaths of those housed under asylum support provisions, such as in hotels.