Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street to announce the government's Spending Review.Asylum seekers in the UK will not be put up in hotels after the next general election, Rachel Reeves has announced.
The chancellor said the move would save taxpayers £1 billion a year and was “the choice of the British people”.
She made the announcement as she set out the government’s spending plans for the next three years.
Reeves said the last Tory government had “lost control” of the immigration system.
“The party opposite left behind a broken system,” she said. “Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels, leaving people in limbo and shunting the cost of failure onto local communities. We won’t let that stand.
“Led by the work of the home secretary, we will be ending the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers, in this parliament.
“Funding that I have provided today will cut the asylum backlog, hear more appeal cases and return people who have no right to be here, saving the taxpayer £1bn per year.
“That is my choice. That is Labour’s choice. And that is the choice of the British people.”
Reeves also announced that she was making available an extra £280m a year by 2028 for the government’s new Border Security Command, which is tasked with stopping asylum seekers coming the UK in small boats across the Channel.
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