Is Labour really failing on immigration and asylum hotels?

Councils in the UK are weighing legal challenges after the Supreme Court’s decision to prevent a hotel in EPPING from hosting asylum seekers.

Power prevents asylum seekers from taking part in Bell Hotel in the town of Essex, and the existing residents should be removed until September 12th.

On Wednesday, some local authorities, including some of the Labor Party, said that they were considering the options for making a similar transaction.

The decision led to another wave of criticism directed to the Sir Keir Starmer and the Labor Government, and the opposition parties accused the government of not being able to solve the issue over and over again.

Nevertheless, in the midst of reaction and local council tensions, the figures have already taken important steps to get away from the use of the Labor Party.

Multi of housing asylum seekers in hotels fell significantly from the summit in 2023. Last year (2024/5), the cost of hotel bills fell from £ 3.1 billion in the previous year by one third.

Smaller invoice is a result of many factors, especially the decrease in asylum accumulation.

In a hotel, the average daily cost to host every asylum seeker fell from £ 176 to £ 170 per person. This is still higher than previous years.

The government also strives to reduce the proportion of asylum seekers in hotels and move towards other types of accommodation.

The figures in March show that 32,345 asylum seekers out of more than 100,000 people are located in hotels and the rest are temporary accommodation, including the houses of the council and an old airport.

Only 30 percent remain in hotels that mean an unexpected situation or temporary measurement.

State accounts show that costs will remain similar this year and that £ 2.2 billion requested by the Ministry of Interior for asylum housing costs will remain similar; He argues that the number of asylum seekers is unlikely to decrease significantly.

In February, Permanent Secretary of the Interior, Sir Matthew Rycroft, said the episode aimed to “reach zero” until the end of this parliament in 2029.

In 2022, the government began to plan to use “big sites such as cruise ships and old military bases to host asylum seekers.

These include Biby Stockholm Mavna, which was closed last year, and the former shelf airport Wethersfield, which is home to 588 people from the beginning of 2025.

However, a review last year found that these sites were more expensive than hotels as a way to host asylum seekers.

However, according to the analysis performed by the Migration Observatory, hotels are six times more expensive than other accommodation types; £ 170 per day compared to £ 27 per day.

But most of the time, the government is forced to place people in hotels due to lack of capacity, due to accommodation shortages and significantly decreasing – decrease. Asylum accumulation.

Asylum accumulation, at the end of March, took place in 78,745 cases-a decrease of 13 percent from the month of December and 41 percent in the middle of 2023.

Nevertheless, a large participation, which is still higher than 2022, represents a number of costs for the government while people expect a decision on asylum claims.

Although most asylum seekers recovered at the same time last year, their waiting times are waiting for more than six months for their first decision on their allegations.

According to the Migration Observatory, the majority of the accumulated work are Afghan, Pakistani and Iranian citizens.

Britain’s asylum accumulation is the fifth size of Europe.

Where do the asylum seekers stay in the UK?

Now, more than 8 out of 10 local authorities are hosting some asylum seekers, the home office shows the figures. This is a significant increase in the last decade.

For asylum seekers, accommodation varies according to the region. In the north -east of the UK, only 5 percent are in hotels, while the hotels of London are most of the accommodation (65 percent).

The EPPING Forest Council is located in the east of England, which has 41 percent of the immigrants in hotels.

However, the Council, which is in Essex, has a concentration of asylum seekers higher than the rest of London, England.

Bell Hotel in EPPING was hosted by about 140 immigrants. BBC All reports that should be separated by September.

Although the hotel provides accommodation for the home office for several years, the occupancy fluctuated and shows only 28 asylum seekers in EPPING forest hotels in March.

The reform leader Nigel Farage called on other councils to look for “EPPING style precautionary measures karşı against the use of hotels hosting asylum seekers:“ It is time to reduce it by popular demand that no one has voted in England.

The last return came to the midst of the record levels of small boat transitions to England.

Labour’s Educational Minister Barones Jacqui Smith admitted that the high numbers were kadın a problem we haven’t been able to cope until this point ”.

People coming in small boats constitute an increasing rate of asylum practices. Last year, one -third of England’s asylum claims came from small boat immigrants.

In 2025, more than 26,000 immigrants in 2025 have already passed the British channel, which is higher than summer levels every year.

In fact, the figures in the mid -August exceeded almost the entire 2023 (29.437).

Meanwhile, according to the national criminal agency data, the arrest of smugglers who provided transitions fell last year. Independent.

Shadow Interior Minister, the Labor Party’s “inability to break the gangs” called.

This is that the migration of small boats may be over 2025 and can bring a series of new asylum claims; Because almost all irregular immigrants apply for asylum.