Migrants in hotels for up to three years, report suggests

Migrants could beryllium housed successful hotels for up to 3 much years due to the fact that of the asylum backlog, it has been reported.

The Times paper said connected Monday evening that since winning the predetermination Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and different ministers person realised that clearing the backlog volition instrumentality longer than they had hoped.

The enactment had pledged to wide it and “end asylum hotels” but a Whitehall root told the Times that the it is “much worse than we thought”.

“It’s going to instrumentality a batch longer to wide than we anticipated. It surely won’t beryllium cleared successful a year,” they added.

A Labour root said: “We person inherited a wholly failed migration strategy from the Tories. Including them spending implicit £700 cardinal connected Rwanda, and gimmicks that didn’t work. We’re moving connected clearing down the backlog they near behind, they intelligibly did thing astatine each successful the months earlier the election.

“The numbers talk for themselves.”

According to Home Office figures released successful August, a full of 118,882 radical were waiting for an archetypal determination connected an asylum exertion successful the UK astatine the extremity of June 2024, down by 32% from 175,457 astatine the extremity of June 2023, which was the highest fig since existent records began successful 2010.

But the latest full was up somewhat from the 118,329 waiting to beryllium dealt with astatine the extremity of March this year, indicating a emergence successful the past 3 months of the 12-month period.

Earlier this month, Ms Cooper told broadcasters that the Government was making advancement connected clearing the asylum backlog and returning those with nary close to beryllium successful the UK “so that we tin extremity these precise costly asylum hotels”.

The Labour manifesto released up of the wide predetermination said that the enactment would “restore bid to the asylum strategy truthful that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly”.

“We volition prosecute further caseworkers to wide the Conservatives’ backlog and extremity asylum hotels, redeeming the payer billions of pounds,” the manifesto said.