Roman Way Hotel, Cannock

The Roman Way is a roadside hotel on the A5 Watling Street at Cannock and has been used for several years as Home Office asylum dispersal accommodation under the Serco Midlands regional contract. It sits in the South Staffordshire constituency of Sir Gavin Williamson MP, who has run a public campaign for the contract to end.

The Express and Star reported that an anti asylum protest of around 140 people gathered outside the Roman Way Hotel in August 2025, met by around 40 counter demonstrators. Staffordshire Police deployed public order officers across the town to keep the two groups apart and to manage traffic on the A5^[1]Press.

Sir Gavin Williamson MP, the Conservative member for South Staffordshire, has run a public campaign calling for the Home Office to remove asylum seekers from the Roman Way Hotel. His campaign page details constituency case work and Parliamentary correspondence on the Serco contract^[2]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[3], a 130 room hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £22,100 per night and roughly £8.1 million per year. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[4]NAO.