Sir ker stormer Can eliminate the use of Controversial migrant hotel Within the next six months, if he offered a blanket waiver to those seeking asylum from a handful of countries, it has been claimed.
Refugee council It is said that the ministers will be able to stop relying on hotels by March next year. Thousands of migrants with high grant ratesSuch as Afghanistan, Syria and Iran.
House office Statistics of refuge applications from Sudan suggest that the grant rate for Syrians has been up to 98 percent in recent years. Nevertheless, thousands of these countries are kept in hotels for months, unable to work or study, while their applications are reviewed.
Labor vowed to end the dependence on hotels by 2029, but has been under pressure to close them first after a string. Anti -migrant protests across the country. Demonstrations began outside the Bell Hotel in Eating, which was ruled by the High Court last week, no longer allowed to give homes to the shelters after the violence. The appeal court on Thursday is due to hearing a legal challenge for that decision.
The refugee council said that such a step would be going on at the footsteps of the 1997 Labor Government, which allowed about 30,000 grants of an extraordinary holiday as part of a plan to deal with the growing backlog of asylum claims between 1999 and 2000. Applicants claiming asylum before 1 July 1993 were also automatically given a recovery until the public interest, or their expulsion had already begun, stated by the brief published on Thursday.
However, Jack strawWho was the home secretary at that time, told Independent That he “regretted Amnesty as” a decision “. “Although it actually ‘cleaned the backlog’, it works as a bridge factor”, he said.
Chhaya Home Secretary Chris Filp said the proposal “Waving through thousands of asylum seekers, rewarding those who come illegally without testing their claims properly”.
But independent MP and former shadow Chancellor John McDonal told Independent: “This is a creative and practical policy that has been responding to Zenophobia promoted by improvement. The shelters I have experiences for the last decades, they do not want to get stuck in the hotel, they want to join our communities and contribute to our society and our economy.”
However, with the labor nervous on danger with Nigel Faraz, some senior party data said the refugee council proposals could not work under the prevailing political situation. Talk to Independent, Dame Emily Thornberry, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Selection Committee, warned: “It is a non-starter in the current climate.”
Meanwhile, Ben Maguire, Lib Dame Shadow Attorney General, said that Labor should speed up asylum processing, saying: “Ministers should look seriously on ideas like these to happen.”
According to analysis of home office data by the refugee council, four of the 10 people kept in hotels are from Afghanistan, Irritriya, Iran, Sudan or Syria. By June 2025, there were 32,059 asylum in the UK hotels.
Cost of houses seekers in the hotel £ 5.77m per day, below £ 8.3m per day in 2024, according to the house office.
The citizens of Eritrea have 87 percent asylum claim grant rate in the initial decision, and the people of Sudan are even more, at 94 percent, analysis was found. The refuge grant rate for Syrians has been very high in recent years – 98 percent – although it can change after the collapse of Assad regime.
Similarly, in 2024, Afghans had 96 percent success rate on initial refuge decisions. This house office has fallen to 39 percent in June 2025 following a change in the guidance of the country, which reduced the types of people at risk from the Taliban. For Iranians, it has fallen from 82 percent to 60 percent.
It is not possible to forcibly return people in Syria, Afghanistan or Iran.
Another 20,198 people from these countries were scattered in the house office or contingent housing, such as the houses of several occupants, show the latest figures. Overall, 32,917 people are being supported in the government house.
If they were given a temporary form of the holiday, allowing them to stay and work in the UK, the ministers can completely eliminate the use of hotels, the charity said.
After the time-limit holiday, the home office will then decide on whether the shelter should be allowed to stay in the UK.
Refugee Council Chief Executive Officer Envara Solomon said: “Our analysis shows that we do not have to wait until 2029 to end the use of asylum hotels – Last week’s High Court ruled at Bell Hotel in Eating It has already proved that this timeline is no longer viable. A targeted ‘One-off’ scheme, which focuses on matters of countries with high grant rates for asylum, may eliminate the use of hotels by 2026.
“As long as the hotels are open, they will remain flashpoints for distant activity, promote stress and separate communities”.
The house office has promised the closure of Sharan Hotel in the new year, telling a government source. Mentor It is “expected to close at least five more hotels by the end of the year”.
It comes after improvement UK pledged to exile on a large scale Some 600,000 asylum seekers If it takes power. And Minister Nick Thomas-SIMSS accused Nigel Faraj of “to divide and stop anger”.
Mr. Straw said that an effective apology would encourage people to come to the UK, saying: “People are very skilled under the supervision of smugglers what happens in the UK, so if they see as a chin that they see what they see, they take advantage of. It sends a message that if you were difficult from inside, you were very hard.
The former Labor Home Secretary in the Blair government has proposed that the UK should enlighten its human rights law and is not related to ECHR.
Mr. Straw, who helped drafting the 1998 Human Rights Act of Britain, said: “The item that we will be kept in a state of Russia or Belarus, clearly nonsense. I am not telling that we should leave ECHR, what I am doing is that [suggesting] We do this what many other European countries have done, [which] It is to make your human rights law self-contained and not add to Echr. ,
Saying that the government needs to “move on”, he said: “I think the government has this, we need to work with other European countries that are concerned in such a way that the Strassburg Court has disrupted the refuge”.
Mr. Filp said: “This proposal is nothing more than an apology from the back door. Labor has promised to abolish the use of hotels, but whatever they have distributed is considered to be confusion, anarchy, and communities as a dumping ground. The only way to end the use of the hotel is to stop crossing to prevent crossing in our deportation bill.”
A home office spokesperson said: “Since assuming office, we have taken immediate action to fix the refuge system and have started closing hotels and do not have the right to return more than 35,000 people.
“More than 400 asylum hotels open in summer in 2023, the cost of about £ 9m a day is now less than 210, and we want them to close by the end of this Parliament.
“We will continue to work closely with community partners across the country, and will discuss any concern with them, as we look at this broken system to fix together. The security of local communities which are located hotels, will always be a worry.”
