City of Doncaster Council

Asylum and Migration · drafted 2026-07-02 · accepted · 1 finding(s)

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18 Sep 2025At Full Council on 18 September 2025, in response to a question from Councillor Gerald Squire, Mayor of Doncaster Ros Jones (the council's directly-elected executive) stated that the council had 'been robust in its approach to housing asylum seekers' and set out specific opposition actions it had taken against Home Office 'contingency' hotel use in the borough: successfully challenging the opening of two additional contingency hotels, campaigning for the closure of another, and challenging Mears Housing's attempts to procure further properties to house asylum seekers. This is a stated executive position, not a full-council motion, and Doncaster's executive is Labour-led (directly-elected Mayor), not Reform-led — the council is explicitly excluded from the Reform-led scope in this project's council registry (Reform holds most council seats but not the mayoralty). [1][2][3]

References (3)
  1. Minutes, 18 September 2025 “Doncaster has been robust in its approach to housing asylum seekers here in the city and successfully challenged the opening of 2 additional Contingency Hotels under the previous Government.”
  2. Minutes, 18 September 2025 “We also campaigned and provided information leading to the closure of another Contingency Hotel.”
  3. Minutes, 18 September 2025 “We have also successfully challenged the use of numerous properties, that Mears Housing have attempted to procure to house Asylum Seekers.”