Truth about migrant hotels: They host tens of thousands of young men and cost billions. Now our investigation raises disturbing questions about exactly who's in them... and why the government is obses

A few days ago, I rang to book a room at the Mercure Hotel in central Leeds for a weekend next January. An Afghan ‘teenage’ migrant was convicted last year of sexually touching a 12-year-old boy in the bedroom of his Home Office hotel in Waltham Forest, east London. A request to the Home Office for an independent review of the impact of migrant crime on the UK’s women and girls was made last week by Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth Sir Gavin Williamson, a former Tory Government minister and MP, asked the Government to regularly update the public how many hotels have been ‘repurposed’ to house asylum seekers since the election Zubaidullah, 22, had drugged, raped and then killed a 13-year-old girl in Vienna only a few weeks before. Earlier this month Sir Gavin Williamson, a former Tory Government minister and MP, asked the Government to regularly update the public how many hotels have been ‘repurposed’ to house asylum seekers since the election. He told Parliament during a debate on the issue: ‘My constituents have had the devastating news that the Roman Way hotel is to be stood up to house asylum seekers after being closed for that purpose last year.’ Sir Gavin accused the Government of busily – and secretly - bringing hotels back into use for migrants that were closed by the Tories.