Labour has pledged to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by the end of this parliament in 2029

Asylum seekers like those staying in the Bell Hotel in Epping may be removed from their current digs, but they won’t be going very far

Though the asylum backlog is at its lowest level since 2021, the government is still housing over 100,000 asylum seekers. A third of these are in hotels, which cost millions a day.