LONDON: Britain’s Labour government pledged to cut a backlog in asylum applications and end “the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers,” saving £1 billion ($1.3 billion) annually, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced on Wednesday. “Funding that I have provided today ... will cut the asylum backlog, hear more appeal cases and return people who have no rights to be here, saving the taxpayer a billion pounds a year,” Reeves said in her Spending Review that sets out Treasury expenditure and savings over the next few years.

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The Chancellor said migrants would be moved out of hotels by the time of the next general election, due in 2029.

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LONDON: Britain’s Labour government pledged to cut a backlog in asylum applications and end “the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers,” saving £1 billion ($1.3 billion)…

The Chancellor pledged that migrants would be moved out of hotel accommodation by the time of the next general election , due in 2029.