Jewellery and valuables belonging to refugees could be seized to pay for housing

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‘It is right that if people have money in the bank, if people have assets...they should be contributing’, a Home Office minister said on Monday

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Jewellery and valuables belonging to refugees could be confiscated in order to pay for accommodation and other costs as part of sweeping reforms to the asylum system, a Home Office minister has said.