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A large UK, the city of the local authority, which was largely caused by the cost of housing asylum seekers, was warned for a black hole of 110 million pounds. Robert Emmott, General Manager of Financial Services, will provide estimates to the Assembly members at the Glasgow City Chambers meeting on Thursday. Authorized warns that at least 12% savings will be necessary, which means more loss of work and deduction of services.

Emmott concludes: “The latest projections foreseen a budget deficit for 2026-28. The Council, which was operated by the SNP, asked the Ministry of Interior to a pause in the disintegration of new arrivals from October and at the same time demanding to host the asylum seekers moved to Glasgow from other parts of England.

This, the general manager, “more damage than to be good and potentially sleeping people who sleep in the streets” warning about the Scottish Refugee Council, including the exchange.

Mr. Emmott’s report, in 2024/25, “excessive spending from the permissions to stay” was £ 27 million, but it is paid to £ 12.4 million from the Council’s cash reserves “net cost … 14.6 million £”.

“Unless there is a change in politics, projections will rise to £ 43 million in 2025/26 and to £ 66 million in 2026/7. Scotland.”

In general, this means that this year is invoiced and the next financial year is £ 109 million. Even if the Council’s new asylum seekers are requested to pause, this year and the next bill is still expected to reach £ 49 million.

The report continues: “In the event that both a pause in the disintegration of Glasgow and its hosts from Scotland from October 2025, their estimated costs would reduce to 36 million pounds at 2025/26 and £ 13 million in 2026/27.”

However, considering the major increase in asylum claims of the British government, especially from small boat transitions and protests on housing asylum seekers in the hotels in the UK, there is no guarantee that the British government will accept pause.

Mr. Emmott said that in both years (2026/27 and 2027/28), a 5% council increase in the budget black hole will reduce the budget black hole to £ 80.7 million and “if teachers’ budgets are protected, 7.2% or 11.8%,” he said. Inflation and increasing pension payments are other important factors in the prediction expenditure.

The Council leader Susan belonged to the “transformation” of the system.

Herald told the newspaper: “There has been a major increase in the number of households passing through the asylum process of Britain, just to find themselves homeless.

“These new citizens are later drawn to Scotland and Glasgow because of the fact that our homeless legislation is more robust than the rest of England.

“I am proud to support Glasgow’s support for refugees, and I believe that migration has improved the 850 -year story. However, the support of the city from Whitehall should be transformed.”

Reform Reform said to the British Assembly Member Thomas Kerr The Scottish Express: “Glasgow Breaking Point – We cannot buy a house in the branch and young people, we cannot meet SNP and Labour’s open door migration policies. It is time to invest in ourselves and to stop using our city as a dump.”

In the articles, Richard Bell, the leader of the council and the city treasurer, reveals a £ 43 million -pound invoice for housing asylum seekers at 2025/6.

“The actions of dealing with this in 2026-27 are now taken into consideration, however, it should be urgently progressing to minimize the need for significant savings in 2026-27 to address this pressure.”

‘Rainy Day’ budget support fund was never intended to meet the costs of running costs, and Cllr Bell said it was previously established to “allow us to look at how we can do things differently”.

In recent years, Council budget savings have resulted in large business losses and services and facilities throughout the city. These include a life service supported for the elderly, including dementia people and a consultancy service for victims of sexual assault in the Sandyford clinic.

A request for a pause in asylum seekers was announced in April by Glasgow’s homelessness meeting CLLR Allan Casey. The system warned the risk of “social adaptation” and said, “The cost of the city lasts tens of millions, seemingly no end,” he said.

In a letter to workers’ asylum Minister Angela Eagle, more than 1,000 asylum seekers from other parts of England, usually from cities such as Belfast, London, Manchester and Birmingham, said more than 4,000 asylum seekers.

They are influenced by the generous housing options financed by the Council and the extra benefits provided by the Scottish government. For years, the city has been the largest asylum area outside London, and 32 Councils of Scotland have not taken asylum seekers.