The 'costly' use of hotels to house asylum seekers will be ended, Rachel Reeves has vowed, but the system will still cost taxpayers billions a year.
The Chancellor pledged that migrants would be moved out of hotel accommodation by the time of the next general election, due in 2029.
Ms Reeves also promised £1 billion of savings by speeding up the asylum system, along with £280 million 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 on to local communities,' Ms Reeves told the Commons.
