UK seaside city ‘blindsided’ as hundreds of asylum seekers arrive | UK | News
Officials at the United Kingdom Seaside City said that hundreds of asylum seekers did not have the capacity to host more to their home office and learned that they moved to rental properties. The Portsmouth Municipal Assembly discovered that 55 house (HMO) house (HMO) was used to host at least three asylum seekers in each of the city last week. Two years after the Council’s housing director James Hill told the home office that the current capacity was “we can’t support additional asylum seekers”.
However, a public meeting organized by Labor Party Deputy Amanda Martin for Portsmouth North in July revealed that the number of special rentals used to host immigrants rose from 10 to April 2024 at the end of 2019. The home office confirmed that the real figure was 55 last week. Times Reports.
The Portsmouth Municipal Assembly said that the immigrants were not informed about the decision to use a private rental, and the data was revealed only by Mrs. Martin after participating in a parliamentary investigation in June of Clearspring Ready Homes, a subcontracted company by the home office to provide asylum seeker accommodation.
“We were not aware of the number of properties used in the city before.” He said. “Your processes [the Home Office] They are not enough and officially inform a senior officer. “
Although the Ministry of Interior did not have a legal obligation to inform local officials about the use of HMOs for asylum seeking, the councils should be informed if the movement was forced to resources or causes community tensions.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Interior said: “We continue to expand the use of disintegration as a part of our strategy to reduce your confidence in cost -effective hotels and to present a more sustainable and cost -effective asylum system.
He continued: “This approach is applied in close consultations with local authorities throughout the UK to ensure that the disintegration is balanced and community needs and concerns.
“The government inherited a shelter system in chaos with tens of thousands of asylum seekers stuck in the accumulated job hosted by the taxpayer. Less than two years ago, there was 400 shelter at the summit, with a cost of approximately £ 9 million per day.
“We have taken an urgent action to correct the system – doubled the asylum decisions and cut off the return by 41%.
“The cost of shelter hotels decreased by almost one billion pounds in 2024/25 compared to the previous year, and we have put the great reforms that will allow us to end the use of shelter hotels until the end of this parliament.”
