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Migrants ‘could be offered £100 a week’ to leave asylum hotels: Report
The UK aims to cut asylum hotel costs from £2.1 billion annually by offering £100 weekly to encourage asylum seekers to live with family or acquaintances.
- Last week The Daily Telegraph reported Home Office officials proposed offering asylum seekers £100 a week to leave taxpayer-funded hotels, and Downing Street said officials envisaged rolling out the plan.
- More than 32,000 migrants are housed in 200 hotels at 145 per night or 1,015 per week, with a total asylum hotel bill of 5.5 million a day.
- Under the voluntary returns scheme, officials are reported to offer up to £3,000 to Albanians, Bangladeshis, Brazilians, Chinese, Indians, Nigerians and Pakistanis who provide proof of appropriate accommodation and remain subject to regular reporting to the Home Office.
- A Home Office spokesman said `There are no plans for this to happen` and unnamed sources to The Telegraph cautioned options do not mean ministers will pursue them, while shadow home secretary Chris Philp called it a `disgrace` and `morally repugnant`.
- These proposals will form part of a major overhaul announced later this month by Shabana Mahmood, modelled on the Danish system with measures like temporary stay, indefinite leave conditions, and family reunification rules.
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The 200 areas where Home Office payments to asylum seekers to leave hotels won't work
Plans to give asylum seekers £100 a week to leave taxpayer-funded hotels will not be enough to cover housing costs and could put people at risk of homelessness and exploitation, experts have warned. Home Office officials are reportedly proposing that migrants use the money to pay to live with a family or someone they know to accelerate the closure of asylum hotels. The payments, which were criticised as ineffective and “gimmicky”, would be offer…
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