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Plans to house UK asylum seekers in barracks are costly and complicated, experts say

Exclusive: Organisations warn using the barracks in Sussex and Inverness may be more expensive than hotels

The Guardian - UK

How and where are asylum seekers given accommodation in the UK?

Most asylum seekers are placed in privately managed houses, flats or rooms in properties of multiple occupancy.

Evening Standard

The real number of asylum seekers in government-funded accommodation

Many asylum seekers are placed in privately managed properties

The Independent UK

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Asylum Hotels To End Soon: Here's How The UK Government Will Do It

UK asylum hotels 2025 crisis: Government eyes military sites for 900 seekers to slash £5.5M daily costs amid squandered billions

International Business Times UK

Hundreds of asylum seekers to be moved to two UK military sites

Barracks in Inverness and East Sussex will house about 900 men as government aims to end use of hotels

The Guardian - UK

Plans to end asylum hotels ‘won’t save any money’

The government has suggested closing hotels is a bid to appease the public but critics have said it will not save the taxpayer any money

The Independent UK

More military bases could be used to house migrants, says defence minister

Luke Pollard appeared to suggest that the cost of moving migrants into the bases could be higher than housing them in hotels.

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This hotels saga isn’t really about asylum seekers: it’s a window on to a far bigger scandal

A blistering new report tells a tale of billions wasted and vulnerable people left traumatised, while companies profit from a blundering state, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Prisons crisis means serious criminals will be mistakenly released again, experts warn

Errors such as accidental release of Hadush Kebatu, who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, are symptomatic of ‘chaos’ in criminal justice system

The Independent UK

Starmer ‘angry’ over asylum accommodation ‘mess left from last government’

It comes as a report published on Monday said that billions of pounds had been ‘squandered’ on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement.

Evening Standard

Home Office could move asylum seekers into pop-up buildings as it scrambles over migrant hotel crisis

Minister says plans to move away from using migrant hotels will be announced ‘within weeks’

The Independent UK

Progress on ending asylum hotels to be announced ‘within weeks’ – minister

Steve Reed said the Government was looking at ‘modular’ forms of building to ensure sites could go up quickly.

The Independent UK

Billions squandered on asylum hotels because of Home Office ‘incompetence’

Home Office oversight over asylum accommodation is chaotic and incompetent, causing costs to spiral, influential group of MPs warns

The Independent UK

Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation

Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding

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Revealed: How 'chaotic' use of migrant hotels has seen Home Office 'squander' billions of pounds

Government has repeatedly cut corners and wasted taxpayers’ money with its ‘failed, chaotic and expensive’ system, damning report finds

The Independent UK

Home Office has chance to end ‘failed’ asylum accommodation system, MPs say

The Home Office has repeatedly cut corners and wasted taxpayers’ money in its ‘chaotic’ response to asylum accommodation pressures, MPs warned.

The Independent UK

Dad of girl, 14, attacked by Hadush Kebatu hits out at ‘irresponsible’ justice system

The migrant, who resided at the Bell Hotel in Epping during the assault, travelled from Chelmsford to London

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Hadush Kebatu’s victim, 14, ’caused so much stress and anxiety’ over his release

Kebatu was jailed for a year in September for sexually assaulting the teenager.

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The Guardian - UK

Windrush commissioner: Black Britons asking if UK is ‘going backwards’

Rev Clive Foster says rhetoric targeting legal migrants makes some wonder if history is repeating itself

The Guardian - UK

High court halts eviction of refugee under Home Office 28-day policy

Judge intervenes in case, disapplying government rule that charities say drives refugees into homelessness

Evening Standard

London restaurant fined £120k for employing illegal workers fighting Home Office bid for it to be stripped of licence

A Home Office investigation had uncovered three Bulgarian women without the right to work in the UK employed at the popular eatery

The Guardian - UK

When hearts were in the Home Office

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Evening Standard

Fact check: Fake MP defection video, bus pass verification and immigration removals

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

The Independent UK

Refugee misses chance to apply to bring family to the UK by 13 minutes after visa route closes

Refugees in the UK are unable to reunite with their loved ones after the Home Office paused a lifeline scheme in September

The Guardian - UK

Windrush victims to get 75% of compensation up front in scheme overhaul

Exclusive: Claimants will also be compensated for lost contributions to work or personal pensions for first time

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