US EditionAsylum hotel numbers up 8% on last year under Labour, Home Office figures show
The 8% increase in asylum seekers housed in UK hotels reflects a rise in claims to 111,000, the highest since 2002, amid ongoing Channel crossings and legal challenges.
- On Thursday, Home Office data showed 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels at June's end, an 8% rise during Labour government's first year in office.
- In the year to June, 111,084 asylum applicants increased pressure on Home Office contingency accommodation, including hotels, as nearly 28,000 small-boat Channel crossings worsened demand amid lack of longer-term accommodation.
- A spending review shows hotel accommodation costs total £1.3 billion of £1.7 billion while total asylum spending fell 12% to £4.76 billion in 2024/25, the National Audit Office found.
- On Tuesday a High Court judge granted Epping Forest District Council a temporary injunction blocking asylum seekers from The Bell Hotel, and ministers brace for further legal challenges as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said, `We inherited a broken immigration and asylum system that the previous Government left in chaos`.
- Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to end hotel use for asylum seekers by parliament end 2029, while Home Office backlog and processing figures show improvement alongside a new returns deal with Iraq and a 'one-in, one-out' pilot with Paris.
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In Britain, more than 111,000 asylum applications have been submitted within a year, but the biggest problem facing the government is housing. Tens of thousands of people live in hotels.
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NotreTemps.comSince the beginning of the year, nearly 28,000 migrants have arrived across the English Channel on makeshift boats, a situation that puts pressure on Keir Starmer's Labour government.
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