Afghan family detained in tent for a month amid ‘chaotic’ Home Office response to Channel boats
2 years, 2 months ago

Afghan family detained in tent for a month amid ‘chaotic’ Home Office response to Channel boats

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Afghan family with young children has been detained in a tent for a month because of the Home Office’s “chaotic” response to Channel crossings, MPs have been told. Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham Tim Loughton called the proportion of claims processed “ridiculous”, while the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree Paula Barker said she was seeing “utter chaos” in Home Office asylum processing in her constituency. He said the Home Office believes the rise is due to Albanian criminal gangs gaining a foothold in northern France and beginning to facilitate “very large numbers of migrants”. Dan Hobbs, the Home Office director for asylum, protection and enforcement, told the committee: “We are looking at misuse of the modern slavery system is to ensure it is there to protect genuine victims, be they British nationals or foreign nationals.” He did not confirm whether a new policy would be brought forward, adding: “It’s not something we’ve been able to get clarity on this morning.”

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Truth about migrant hotels: They host tens of thousands of young men and cost billions. Now our investigation raises disturbing questions about exactly who's in them... and why the government is obses
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Truth about migrant hotels: They host tens of thousands of young men and cost billions. Now our investigation raises disturbing questions about exactly who's in them... and why the government is obses

Daily Mail  

A few days ago, I rang to book a room at the Mercure Hotel in central Leeds for a weekend next January. An Afghan ‘teenage’ migrant was convicted last year of sexually touching a 12-year-old boy in the bedroom of his Home Office hotel in Waltham Forest, east London. A request to the Home Office for an independent review of …

Home Office considering disused care homes and student flats to house asylum seekers
1 month ago

Home Office considering disused care homes and student flats to house asylum seekers

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Home Office is looking at using disused care homes …

New asylum hotels act as a 'massive incentive' for small boat migrant crossings, ministers warned after it emerged seven more have been opened since Labour came to power
1 month, 2 weeks ago

New asylum hotels act as a 'massive incentive' for small boat migrant crossings, ministers warned after it emerged seven more have been opened since Labour came to power

Daily Mail  

Opening more asylum hotels will act as a 'massive incentive' for small boat crossings, Labour has been warned. Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle revealed last week that asylum hotel use had risen since Labour entered government, with seven new hotels being brought into use since the general election in July. But during Home Office questions, Tory MP Julia Lopez …

Asylum seekers have slept in emergency night shelters 60,000 times since last December
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Asylum seekers have slept in emergency night shelters 60,000 times since last December

NL Times  

Since December last year, an average of 181 asylum seekers from Ter Apel have been taken to another location to sleep almost every day, because there were not enough beds in the registration center. Hence my frustration and anger.” Costs for emergency night shelter for asylum seekers run into the millions The use of emergency night shelters to relieve the …

Home Office spent £400m in a year on unused hotel space for migrants
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Home Office spent £400m in a year on unused hotel space for migrants

The Telegraph  

Mr Bolt said his inspectors found some migrants “living in spacious rooms with en suite facilities.” One in six of the 625 bed spaces of one contractor were occupied by single adults in twin or triple space rooms. However, the inspectors visited one large rural hotel that was being emptied out ahead of its planned closure of use for asylum …

Channel migrants will be housed in hotels at the taxpayers' expense 'for three more years'
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Channel migrants will be housed in hotels at the taxpayers' expense 'for three more years'

Daily Mail  

Channel migrants will be housed in hotels at the taxpayers' expense for up to three more years, it was reported last night. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper privately believes the backlog will take more time than initially expected to work through, with a knock-on effect on closing migrant hotels, the Times reported. A group of people thought to be migrants leave …

Number of Channel boat migrants granted asylum rises 400% in a year after Rishi Sunak's bid to empty expensive hotel rooms
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Number of Channel boat migrants granted asylum rises 400% in a year after Rishi Sunak's bid to empty expensive hotel rooms

Daily Mail  

The number of channel boat arrivals being granted asylum rose four-fold in the past year as the former Tory government tried to cut a massive backlog of cases and empty expensive hotel rooms. New Home Office figures released today show that more than 25,000 people were granted asylum in the year to June, up from 6,600 in the same period …

‘Squalor’ of cramped rat-infested Home Office asylum seeker hotels revealed
6 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Squalor’ of cramped rat-infested Home Office asylum seeker hotels revealed

The Independent  

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Government asylum housing plans to cost millions more than hotels – watchdog
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Government asylum housing plans to cost millions more than hotels – watchdog

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The National Audit Office said the Home Office expects …

Afghan hero pilot among thousands of refugees facing homelessness after Home Office rule change
1 year ago

Afghan hero pilot among thousands of refugees facing homelessness after Home Office rule change

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Julian Lewis, the Conservative MP and former chair of the …

Protesters gather as asylum seekers brought back to Bibby Stockholm barge
1 year, 2 months ago

Protesters gather as asylum seekers brought back to Bibby Stockholm barge

The Independent  

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Rishi Sunak left thousands of Afghans eligible for UK stranded in Pakistan ‘to save money’
1 year, 3 months ago

Rishi Sunak left thousands of Afghans eligible for UK stranded in Pakistan ‘to save money’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rishi Sunak left thousands of Afghans eligible to come to …

UK now spending £8m a day housing migrants in hotels
1 year, 3 months ago

UK now spending £8m a day housing migrants in hotels

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper blamed the huge hotel bill on the government’s “asylum chaos”. …

UK government to house asylum seekers on barges in bid to cut costs
1 year, 5 months ago

UK government to house asylum seekers on barges in bid to cut costs

ABC  

Asylum seekers are being housed on barges, under the UK's newest plan to cut refugee costs in the country. Key points: A charity says lawyers who intervened got transfers cancelled for about 20 asylum seekers Housing asylum seekers in hotel rooms cost the British government $3.6 billion in 2022 The Home Office says people who arrive in the UK via …

Ministers accused of ‘disastrous failure’ as 50,000 asylum seekers in hotels
1 year, 5 months ago

Ministers accused of ‘disastrous failure’ as 50,000 asylum seekers in hotels

The Independent  

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UK moves asylum seekers to barge despite humanitarian concerns
1 year, 5 months ago

UK moves asylum seekers to barge despite humanitarian concerns

Al Jazeera  

The large residential barge will only house single men and provide ‘basic and functional’ accommodation. The United Kingdom has begun moving some asylum seekers onto a large residential barge on its southern coast, as part of plans to use cheaper alternatives to hotels as temporary accommodation while asylum claims are processed. The government says it wants to limit the pull …

Ministers ‘would take until 2036 to removed failed asylum seekers at current rate’
1 year, 5 months ago

Ministers ‘would take until 2036 to removed failed asylum seekers at current rate’

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The government would take until 2036 to remove failed asylum seekers …

Legal challenges loom as asylum seekers fight transfer to Bibby Stockholm barge
1 year, 5 months ago

Legal challenges loom as asylum seekers fight transfer to Bibby Stockholm barge

The Independent  

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Home Office plans to move 2,000 asylum seekers into RAF base delayed for months because of failure to do checks
1 year, 5 months ago

Home Office plans to move 2,000 asylum seekers into RAF base delayed for months because of failure to do checks

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A local official told The Independent the government was seeing the “practical results” of …

UK to house migrants in tents if arrivals surge: Reports
1 year, 5 months ago

UK to house migrants in tents if arrivals surge: Reports

Hindustan Times  

The UK government is planning to house migrants in tents to help deal with any surge in small boats crossing the Channel in the coming months, British media reported Friday. Tents able to house up to 2,000 migrants have been purchased by the interior ministry, which plans to erect them on disused military sites by the end of August, several …

Home Office admits its paying for 5,000 empty hotel rooms for asylum seekers
1 year, 6 months ago

Home Office admits its paying for 5,000 empty hotel rooms for asylum seekers

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Home Office is paying for around 5,000 empty hotel …

Home Office paying for thousands of empty hotel beds, MPs told
1 year, 6 months ago

Home Office paying for thousands of empty hotel beds, MPs told

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Home Office is paying for thousands of empty hotel …

Thousands of Afghan asylum seekers ‘at risk of homelessness due to housing shortage’
1 year, 6 months ago

Thousands of Afghan asylum seekers ‘at risk of homelessness due to housing shortage’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of Afghan asylum seekers being evicted from Home Office …

Asylum seekers will be told to share hotel rooms, says Tory minister
1 year, 7 months ago

Asylum seekers will be told to share hotel rooms, says Tory minister

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick appeared to confirm the policy during an appearance on BBC’s Sunday …

‘I need a life’: Afghans stuck in Pakistan hotels living in fear as they await evacuation to UK
1 year, 9 months ago

‘I need a life’: Afghans stuck in Pakistan hotels living in fear as they await evacuation to UK

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. No flights have been chartered for Afghans by the British government since last November, …

Housing migrants in tents ‘perfectly acceptable’, says Tory MP
1 year, 9 months ago

Housing migrants in tents ‘perfectly acceptable’, says Tory MP

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Tents would be “perfectly acceptable” to house migrants arriving via small …

Ministers warned over ‘eviction notices’ being given to Afghan refugees
1 year, 9 months ago

Ministers warned over ‘eviction notices’ being given to Afghan refugees

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Mercer promised “generous” support to help Afghans into settled accommodation, with trained staff …

Homelessness fears as Afghan refugees to be moved from hotels to houses
1 year, 9 months ago

Homelessness fears as Afghan refugees to be moved from hotels to houses

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A refugee charity is “deeply concerned” about reports that thousands …

Home Office has 'had to find extra £2billion' to fund hotels for over 50,000 asylum seekers
1 year, 10 months ago

Home Office has 'had to find extra £2billion' to fund hotels for over 50,000 asylum seekers

Daily Mail  

The Home Office has reportedly been forced to shore up an extra £2million to pay for hotel rooms for asylum seekers after the Government admitted there was no deadline in sight to stop their use. The Best Western Premier Yew Lodge Hotel in Kegworth has stopped taking bookings for the foreseeable future The Home Office has faced pressure from the …

What is behind the row over asylum hotels?
1 year, 11 months ago

What is behind the row over asylum hotels?

The Independent  

Britain’s asylum process is in the spotlight once more, as The Independent reveals applicants cannot be told their status until they are out of ad-hoc hotel accommodation. The Home Office policy states: “Granting protection status for claimants currently in contingency accommodation, such as hotels, can put local authorities under untenable pressure as they will be required by law to find …

Revealed: ‘Appalling’ reality of healthcare inside the Home Office’s asylum hotels
2 years, 1 month ago

Revealed: ‘Appalling’ reality of healthcare inside the Home Office’s asylum hotels

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Asylum seekers in hotels are being left without access to …

Asylum hotels chaos caused by ‘failure to plan’ for Channel crossings surge, minister admits
2 years, 1 month ago

Asylum hotels chaos caused by ‘failure to plan’ for Channel crossings surge, minister admits

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The government’s chaotic scramble to find hotels to house asylum seekers …

Revealed: Asylum seekers waiting more than three years for decisions quadruples
2 years, 2 months ago

Revealed: Asylum seekers waiting more than three years for decisions quadruples

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Abu*, who is from Sudan and has been housed in a hotel in Yorkshire …

Government spending £6.8m a day housing asylum seekers in hotels
2 years, 2 months ago

Government spending £6.8m a day housing asylum seekers in hotels

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Asked by committee chairwoman Dame Diana Johnson if the cost was likely to go …

‘Exponential rise’ in Albanian migrants crossing the Channel this year
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Exponential rise’ in Albanian migrants crossing the Channel this year

The Telegraph  

So far this year, 38,000 people have arrived in the UK in 936 small boats. Tim Loughton, Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, said during the meeting: “A vast number of people are still not knowing if their claims are going to be successful or not and are residing in the UK at taxpayers’ expense.” Despite being paid £54million …

Asylum seekers ‘effectively detained’ at Home Office hotels, investigation finds
2 years, 3 months ago

Asylum seekers ‘effectively detained’ at Home Office hotels, investigation finds

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Asylum seekers as young as 16 years old claim they …

Afghan translators still staying in hotels despite joy of haven in UK
2 years, 4 months ago

Afghan translators still staying in hotels despite joy of haven in UK

Daily Mail  

Looking out to sea from a sandy Welsh beach while his children practise their new-found rugby skills, Latif Hottak struggles to come to terms with his family’s luck. It is a year since the 38-year-old former British military interpreter and his family fled Kabul on an RAF flight that for years seemed ‘an impossible dream’. ‘The Taliban hunted me, tried …

Week of criticisms and revelations over Home Office’s handling of migrant crisis
2 years, 5 months ago

Week of criticisms and revelations over Home Office’s handling of migrant crisis

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Here are the developments so far: – Monday The Commons Home Affairs Committee found …

Refugees stuck in hotel rooms as Perth's rental crisis continues
2 years, 9 months ago

Refugees stuck in hotel rooms as Perth's rental crisis continues

ABC  

Some refugee families have been living in Perth hotels for more than six weeks as they struggle to find a home in an extremely competitive rental market, support workers say. Key points: The Red Cross says the city's housing shortage was worsening at the same time as the withdrawal from Afghanistan The Real Estate Institute of WA predicts rental fees …

Home Office admits cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels almost four times figure given to MPs
2 years, 11 months ago

Home Office admits cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels almost four times figure given to MPs

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The cost of housing asylum seekers and Afghan refugees in …

Home Office spends £4.7m a day housing Channel migrants and asylum seekers in hotels
2 years, 11 months ago

Home Office spends £4.7m a day housing Channel migrants and asylum seekers in hotels

The Telegraph  

The accommodation crisis has been compounded by the failure to secure new agreements to return migrants to "safe" countries through which they passed and where they should have claimed asylum. Ms Patel admitted that the Government had returned only a "tiny" fraction of those whose asylum claims had been ruled inadmissible because of Covid travel restrictions and the refusal of …

Move to house migrants in Army barracks instead of hotels
3 years, 1 month ago

Move to house migrants in Army barracks instead of hotels

The Telegraph  

More asylum seekers could be housed in Army barracks rather than hotels under plans to be considered by a cross-government taskforce on deterring migrants from crossing the Channel. The taskforce will consider plans to reduce significantly the number of migrants accommodated in hotels by extending the use of Army barracks, government sources suggested. It is also expected to consider whether …

Thousands of Afghans to be held in hotels indefinitely
3 years, 4 months ago

Thousands of Afghans to be held in hotels indefinitely

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of Afghans evacuated to Britain in recent weeks are …

Hotel accommodation for migrants will cost up to £70m this year
3 years, 5 months ago

Hotel accommodation for migrants will cost up to £70m this year

The Telegraph  

Housing migrants in hotels is set to cost the taxpayer up to £70 million this year, Priti Patel has admitted. The Home Secretary has told the home affairs select committee that the Home Office expects to spend at least £40 million and up to £70 million on hotels for migrants in the current financial year. In just two days last …

Up to 50 hotels across Britain benefit from £4billion ten-year contract to house asylum seekers
4 years, 5 months ago

Up to 50 hotels across Britain benefit from £4billion ten-year contract to house asylum seekers

Daily Mail  

Casually tapping on their smartphones and smoking in the sunshine, the young men gathered outside the once grand, but now slightly downmarket, hotel appeared carefree and relaxed. An investigation by The Mail on Sunday can reveal that at least 20 – and perhaps as many as 50 – hotels across Britain are being used to house migrants who have made …

What is the true story behind Nigel Farage’s claim that ‘illegal’ immigrants are staying in hotels?
4 years, 5 months ago

What is the true story behind Nigel Farage’s claim that ‘illegal’ immigrants are staying in hotels?

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Turns out it’s accommodating 147 illegal migrants and we’re all …

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