Bredbury Hall Hotel, Stockport

The Bredbury Hall Hotel is a Grade II listed mid-1600s building set in grounds at Bredbury, Stockport, on the outskirts of Manchester. The site combines accommodation with conference and event spaces and historically operated as a wedding venue alongside its hotel trade^[3]Press.

From 2022 the hotel was taken into asylum use by Serco under the North West regional Home Office contract, with more than 100 single adult male asylum seekers housed at the site while waiting for their claims to be processed^[2]Press.

In November 2022 ITV News Granada reported that an asylum seeker at the Bredbury Hall had gone on hunger strike against what he described as inhumane and degrading treatment by Home Office contracted staff. His condition deteriorated to the point that he was taken to hospital during the protest^[1]Press.

Morning Star reporting from the same period named Serco as the operator of the hotel for the Home Office and described conditions inside as squalid, with confirmed cases of scabies, waste left in corridors and unresolved disrepair issues being raised by residents^[2]Press.

At the £170 per-person per-night Migration Observatory and NAO benchmark^[4][5]NAO, the Bredbury Hall run at the reported 100+ resident peak implies headline taxpayer exposure of around £20,400 per night and roughly £7.4 million per year of live use, a typical figure for a Serco North West single hotel site.