Hotel accommodation for migrants will cost up to £70m this year
3 years, 4 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 week, a record total of nearly 1,000 reached Britain in small boats, taking the year's total past 10,500. That's why her Nationality and Borders Bill sets out her plans to end our reliance on hotels by using purpose-built reception centres which can provide simple but safe accommodation for children."

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

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

REVEALED: NYC's $4.7BN migrant bill is equal to cost of critical services like sanitation, parks and fire department COMBINED - as Mayor Eric Adams warns crisis will destroy the city, with schools alr
1 year, 3 months ago

REVEALED: NYC's $4.7BN migrant bill is equal to cost of critical services like sanitation, parks and fire department COMBINED - as Mayor Eric Adams warns crisis will destroy the city, with schools alr

Daily Mail  

New York City's migrant crisis will cost the city more than $4billion this fiscal year if the situation continues - as mayor Eric Adams warned the influx of asylum seekers could destroy the city. There are now nearly 60,000 migrants in the city's care, with about 21,000 new migrant children starting school this year. Migrants were seen sleeping outside The …

Ministers ‘would take until 2036 to removed failed asylum seekers at current rate’
1 year, 4 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 …

Home Office paying for thousands of empty hotel beds, MPs told
1 year, 5 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 …

Home Office has 'had to find extra £2billion' to fund hotels for over 50,000 asylum seekers
1 year, 9 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 …

Home Office spends £4.7m a day housing Channel migrants and asylum seekers in hotels
2 years, 10 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 …

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