Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme in Scotland: statistics - March 2023

Welcome accommodation

The number of displaced people from Ukraine in welcome accommodation, as well as the number of hotel rooms and ship cabins occupied, are on an overall decreasing trend since early January (figure 1). As reported by welcome accommodation teams across Scotland on 14 March, there were around 2,045 hotel rooms and 840 ship cabins occupied by displaced people from Ukraine in welcome accommodation in Scotland. This is a decrease from around 2,315 hotel rooms and around 1,240 ship cabins occupied as reported on 4 January 2023. A timeseries of the number of guests and occupied cabins or hotel rooms in welcome accommodation each week since 4 January 2023 can be found in the accompanying set of tables.

Figure 1: Total number of occupied rooms and ship cabins used as welcome accommodation for displaced people from Ukraine in Scotland. Data between 4 January 2023 and 14 March 2023.

By 14 March, around 1,135 guests had disembarked the M/S Ambition since 14 September, and around 820 guests had disembarked the M/S Victoria since 26 July. Although the M/S Ambition became operational on 14 September 2022, the first disembarkation took place early on 17 September 2022.

Please see methodology section for additional notes.