Nottingham’s Britannia Hotel is among 13 hotels across England which have stopped being used to accommodate asylum seekers, the Home Office has confirmed. A total of 44 asylum hotels have now closed during 2026, including 11 announced in April and a further 20 in June. The Britannia Hotel, in St James’s Street in Nottingham city centre, has not been operating as a conventional hotel while being used under the Home Office accommodation programme. “We are turning that around by ending the use of asylum hotels for good and moving people into larger, basic accommodation like former military sites. The Refugee Council has warned that replacing hotels with large former military sites would not address all the problems within the asylum system.