https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/reeves-spring-statement-hotels-house-asylum-seekers/
(…) “So I can confirm today that, led by the work of … the Home
Secretary, we will be ending the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers
in this Parliament.
“Funding
that I have provided today, including from the Transformation Fund, will cut
the asylum backlog, hear more appeal cases, and return people who have no right
to be here, saving the taxpayer £1 billion per year.”
The move
follows widespread unrest last summer, with rioters targeting hotels housing
asylum seekers in a string of attacks.
It comes
hours after it was suggested old tower blocks and former student accommodation
could be used to house migrants as a viable alternative to hotels currently
housing migrants.
Speaking
on Tuesday, Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle told MPs that the Government
was searching for a “medium-sized” selection of sites as alternative
accommodation.
Last
October concerns were raised over plans to clear the asylum backlog, with The
Times reporting that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and other ministers had
realised that clearing the queue would take longer than they had anticipated.
The party
had pledged to clear it and "end asylum hotels" but a Whitehall
source told the Times that the it is "much worse than we thought".
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