Rachel Reeves has vowed to end the ‘costly’ use of hotels to house asylum-seekers – but not for up to four years.
In her Spending Review speech, the Chancellor said migrants would be moved out of hotels by the end of the current Parliament, with the next general election not due until 2029.
She also promised £1billion of savings by speeding up the asylum system, along with £280million more investment in future years for the new Border Security Command.
‘The party opposite left behind a broken system: billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels, leaving people in limbo and shunting the cost of failure onto local communities. We won’t let that stand,’ Ms Reeves told the Commons.
‘So I can confirm today that, led by the work of the Home Secretary, we will be ending the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers in this Parliament.’
