Rachel Reeves has vowed that the government will be Now no migrants of the house At the Refugee Hotel by 2029.
Underlining the plan to review their expenses for MPs on Wednesday, Ms. Reeves said that the ministers will end “Expensive use of hotels To those seeking asylum in this Parliament ”.
She said that she was working with Home Secretary Yatete Cooper to end the expensive plan, which sees that “billions of pound taxpayers’ money spent on housing shelters in hotels, leaves people in limbo and reduces the cost of failure on local communities”.
Ms. Reeves told the MPs that the shelter is planned to cut the backlog, listen to cases of more asylum appeal, and will save people £ 1BN per year by returning to their home countries.
In Labor’s Manifesto, the party promised to eliminate the use of asylum hotels and is looking at medium -sized sites, such as alternative sources of housing houses, such as student housing blocks and pre -care houses.
Public spending Watchdog recently predicted that the cost of asylum housing would be tripled at £ 15.3bn in 10 years. The original estimates at the cost of £ 4.5bn for 2019-2029, but the National Audit Office (NAO) modified it to £ 15.3bn.
He said that around 110,000 people seeking asylum were kept by the house office in December 2024 – some of them lived in 38,000 hotels.
The most senior civil servant in the home office had said earlier this year that the department had a target to get the Refugee Hotel. Use “zero to zero” by the end of this Parliament. However, Sir Matthew Ricroft, who has now quit the top job, predicted that “up and down” could affect that promise.
He said: “I don’t think you should expect the gradual decline of that number to zero to zero by the end of this Parliament”.
Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle has said that the department is currently searching for various methods of housing people. He told MPs Tuesday that he had “saw the break clause” In the government’s large migrant hotel contracts, and she was looking at other options through pilot schemes.
He said: “Thoughts with medium sites are older zero tower blocks, or older teaching training colleges or old student housing that are not being used, where you may have the number of rooms that you have more than receiving with housing you have.
Labor has moved away from orthodox plans to use large sites, such as former military sites and controversial Bibbi Stockholm Barj.
The home office is also giving priority to the processing of asylum claims and issuing more decisions, which means that more people who are denying asylum are being taken out of hotels.
