US EditionHome Office squandered billions on asylum hotels, MPs say
- A report from MPs reveals massive waste of taxpayer funds on asylum hotels, totaling expected costs of £15.3 billion by 2029 due to mismanagement under past Conservative leadership.
- The Home Office has not penalized providers for poor performance, resulting in tens of millions of pounds in excess profits remaining with private companies instead of being utilized for public services.
- Dame Karen Bradley, chair of the Home Affairs Committee, insists that urgent action is required to improve the asylum accommodation system and maintain community trust.
- MPs highlighted the pressing need for a long-term strategy to manage asylum accommodation effectively while addressing local community concerns.
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A parliamentary report once again highlights the cost and failure of the massive use of hotels to house migrants in the United Kingdom. A new stone in the Prime Minister's shoe, with these hotels that divide society and fuel the anger of the conservatives, against the backdrop of the rise of the far right.
Progress on Ending Asylum Hotels to Be Announced ‘Within Weeks’ – Minister
Progress on ending the use of hotels for asylum accommodation will be announced “within weeks”, the Housing Secretary has said. Steve Reed said the Government was looking at “modular” forms of building to ensure sites could go up quickly, and use big sites such as military bases to end the use of hotels “entirely”. It comes as a committee of MPs report published on Monday said that billions of pounds had been “squandered” on asylum accommodation…
British Gov't Has 'Wasted' Billions in Migrant Hotel Scheme Mismanagement, Parliament Finds
The British government has been accused by parliamentarians of wasting billions in the mismanagement of the deeply controversial scheme to house supposed asylum seekers in hotels across the country at taxpayer expense.
The British Parliament's Internal Affairs Committee has blacked out, in a report published this Monday, the waste and negligent management of irregular immigration that hotels across the country have put on hosting asylum seekers. The places contracted for the period 2019-2029, according to the text, will cost 17.5 billion euros (at the same time) for the public treasury, more than three times the little more than 5.1 billion that were initially…
Bristol Post
Manchester Evening NewsHome Office can end 'failed' asylum hotel system, MPs say
MPs want the Home Office to prioritise the closure of certain asylum hotels
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