Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has vowed to end the use of asylum hotels by the end of the Parliament in 2029. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00Mr Speaker, let me turn next to the action we're taking to ensure that every asylum hotel will be closed for good under this Government.
00:06Not just by shifting individuals from hotels to other sites, but by driving down the numbers in supported accommodation overall.
00:14And not in a chaotic way through piecemeal court judgments, but through a controlled, managed and orderly programme.
00:21Driving down inflow into the asylum system, clearing the appeals backlog, which is crucial, and continuing to increase returns.
00:30Within the asylum estate, we're reconfiguring sites, increasing room sharing, tightening the tests for accommodation and working at pace to identify alternative, cheaper and more appropriate accommodation with other Government departments and with local authorities.
00:46And we're increasing standards and security and joint public safety cooperation between the police, accommodation providers and the Home Office to ensure that laws and rules are enforced.
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