Delta Hotels Warwick

The Delta Hotels Warwick by Marriott is a large modern corporate hotel and conference venue at M40 Junction 15, just south of Warwick town centre. Before the Home Office contract it was a substantial Warwickshire conferencing, wedding and business-travel venue with extensive grounds and parking.

The Leamington Observer reported in December 2024 that the Delta Hotel on Stratford Road, just off Longbridge Roundabout, was set to provide temporary accommodation for some 360 single male asylum seekers^[1]Press. Warwick Nub News reported that fences had been erected around the hotel, that security was on site, and that the hotel had been temporarily closed for around three months while it housed asylum seekers under a Home Office contract^[2]Press.

Warwickshire Police issued a force statement in December 2024 setting out the policing arrangements for the Delta Hotel after the announcement that the site would be used for asylum accommodation. The statement covered patrols, community engagement and the local liaison structure with Warwick District Council during the contract period^[3]GOV.UK.

Warwick District Council published a statement noting that it has no role in the placement of asylum seekers and that it is advised by the Home Office once the Department has commissioned hotels. The council emphasised the additional backlog being absorbed by Warwickshire and pointed to the broader national position that hotels are intended only as a contingency measure^[4]Council.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[5] and 360 residents at peak, the Delta Hotels Warwick running cost works out at about £61,200 per night and roughly £22.4 million per year if the contract had run for a full year. Even at the initial three-month engagement, headline taxpayer exposure landed at over £5.5 million across the quarter. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[6]NAO.