asylum seekers Can be taken to warehouses instead of hotel, Yweet cooper Has suggested.
The Home Secretary said that the government was considering industrial and military sites For shelter seekers Under the plan to reduce the number of migrant hotels.
In an interview with LBC on Tuesday morning, Ms. Cooper said that the warehouse was “one of the things that have been seen”. He said that House office The updates will provide “when we got practical plans”, but said that they were “searching for alternative sites, more suitable sites, including to see military and industrial sites”.
Labor has committed to end the use of refuge hotels by 2029, but after several violent protests outside the sites across the country, they are under pressure to move forward.
Demonstration started out Epping, Bell Hotel in Essex, A resident was accused of alleged sexual assault. The Epting Forest District Council won a temporary prohibition against the use of the hotel from the High Court, only for the order to reversed by the Court of Appeal last week.
Court of appeal judges ruled that 152-bed hotels have to be closed “Clear results” on government’s duty To those seeking asylum for the house.
Since June 2025, more than 32,000 asylum seems to live in a hotel. While the number of shelters kept in hotels is eight percent from year to year, The number has been 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.
Although the increasing number of small boat crossings in 2025 is also putting pressure on the housing, a record with channel crossings is set to reach high if the trend continues.
Sir Kir Stmper on Tuesday told cabinet ministers that there was a need to go “ahead and fast” when dealing with the stay. A Downing Street spokesperson said Sir Kir understood that “frustrations feel the level of illegal crossing and the site of asylum hotels in their communities”.
The spokesperson said that the Prime Minister will hold another minister meeting on Tuesday afternoon “to consider how we can go ahead and fast to combat illegal crossings”.
Care Minister Steven Kinnok said last week that the government was searching for “a full range of options” beyond hotels, who were making the house seeking asylum. He said that these include “Warehouse, Dissemed Office Blocks, Dissed Military Barracks”.
According to the house office, the cost of the house hotel is The department for running around £ 5.77m per day, Last year below £ 8.3m per day.