TeaHe has increased the number of shelter seekers kept in government hotels under labor in the first year, to get a grip to put more pressure on Sir Kir Star. Increasing number of people making dangerous channel crossings.
Data follows the decision of a High Court on Tuesday that banned EPPING, Use of Bell Hotel in Essex, After the lawyers argued that this site became “a feeding ground for unrest” for the residence shelter seekers after a link of violent protests near the site.
As the government braces for a fresh Round of legal action from councils In search of similar restrictions in its areas, data from the new home office shows that the number of people claiming asylum in June increased to a record 111,000, while the number of small boats crossing the channel is increasing.
The government has been accused of repeatedly failing to deal with immigration, reform Britain leader Nigel Faraj said that “the public is very angry” is being kept in hotels among those seeking asylum. Shadow’s Home Secretary Chris Filp claimed that the ministers “lost control of our borders”.
Chhaya Justice Secretary Robert Jenrich has said that the country “is well the previous breaking point”, and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch questioned what this would happen It is possible for migrants to “set up camps”, Instead of having them residence near local communities.
While the number of shelters kept in hotels is eight percent from year to year, the number is continuously falling since December last year. Number of people in hotels – 32,059 – In September 2023, the Tory government is much lower than the peak of more than 56,000.
Labor has also progressed on bite Backlog of asylum claims And accelerating the number of exile, with the applied returns from 25 percent to 9,072, and increasing number of criminals deported in June in June.
Home Secretary Yvet Cooper said on Thursday that the numbers showed that Labor has “strengthened the visa and Britain’s visa and Immigration Control, refuge cost cuts, and rapid enforcement and increase in returns ”.
Bad news: Sharan claims and small boats at record level
The number of migrants to be temporarily kept in hotels has increased by eight percent to 32,059.
It was above 29,585 at the same point last year when conservatives were in power, but were below 32,345 in March, and have been falling since last December.
The figure is still below the peak of 56,000 asylum seekers living in hotels in September 2023.
Shadow’s Home Secretary Chris Filp slammed the “weak” ministers to be “more migrant in hotels than the election time”, but Labor convicted Toryse, on Thursday, Ms. Cooper said that the government had inherited a broken immigration and refuge system which was left in anarchy “.
The government has said that it is committed to abolish the use of asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament and already decreased by 11 percent in asylum costs.
Envara Solomon, Chief Executive Officer of Refugee Council Charity, said: “There are still a lot of people in hotels. Everyone agrees that hotels are wrong answers – those taxpayers cost billions, trap people in limbo and there are flashpoints in communities.”
Increasing number of hotels comes as a record number of people – 111,084 – In June 2025 presented claims for asylum, the highest number for any 12 months since the records started in 2001.
Small boat migrants, The number of which is the top of 50,000 under labor so far this year.39 percent of these claims are responsible, but many thousands of people also claimed asylum after a visit to the UK on a legal visa.
For the year, some 6,700 people have claimed asylum after coming to the UK to study, and there are 5,900 people after arriving for work. Most of the applicants were from Pakistan, accounting for 10.1 percent, followed by the contenders for Afghanistan and Iran.
The government has progressed on cutting the backlog, and the number of people continue to decline in waiting for the decision. After the former Tori government, more than 90,000 below in late 2024, the wait for the total number in June was 70,532. Prohibited processing applications However, it was waiting to see if it could send people to Rwanda under the final failure plan.
The numbers waiting for more than 12 months for a decision are also falling quite a lot, although some 19,000 are still waiting.
Mr. Solomon of the Refugee Council said that the government may be proud of the “real achievement” of bringing the numbers down, but warned that “this good work is being put at risk by poor-quality decisions”, “About half of the appeal to succeed against the rejected application.
In the Institute for Public Policy Research Think Tank, Marley Morris agreed that there were “signs of progress” since the processing time of the home office.
However, he said that he needs to “improve the quality of initial decision making and give speed to the appeal process, and expand the” stock of temporary housing “to the migrants to reduce the expenditure on hotels, priced at £ 2.1bn in 2024–25.
Good news: more exile and removal of criminals
A region where labor is making real progress, is in significant increase in exile. The expulsion implemented has increased by 25 percent, 9,072 people returned to their original country in June in the year. Voluntary Return – Owing to leave – also up to 13 percent, 26,761 people choose to leave the UK. It brings a total number of more than 35,000 removal in June in June.
Aided returns have also increased significantly, where the home office provides assistance or even financial incentives to the migrants to leave the UK. This figure has doubled from 4,032 to 9,227. earlier this year, Independent It turned out that the Home Office had paid £ 53m For aided returns in the last four years, each migrant receives up to £ 3,000.
The house office has rectified some 1,000 employees for immigration enforcement, which may have promoted returns by the notes. In particular, the increasing number of foreign criminals is being deported, returning to 5,265 criminals – about half of whom were citizens of the European Union.
Earlier this year, the Prime Minister announced that expert immigration enforcement teams were being sent to jails to remove prisoners “. The latest figures are the highest number of criminals removed in the years, but are still below the summit in 2016.
Albania, Romania, Brazil, and are one of the top nationalities coming from India and the top nationalities, but the top withdrawal destination to remove migrants is France, with 8,403 people in the last one year.
The government’s new one, each with France, will allow a small number of migrants to be returned after crossing the channel. But the numbers are small – about 50 people are understood in a week – and so far no one is known to be sent back.
