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Justice minister Jake Richards announces that the government plan to use three more disused military sites to house asylum seekers, in an effort to move people out of hotels. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, look, we made a promise to the British people that we would close all the asylum hotels that the
00:04Conservatives opened.
00:05At their peak, there were 400. We've closed over half of those now, and today we've announced that we've closed
00:10another 20.
00:11But whilst we're closing those, of course, we need to accommodate people somewhere,
00:14and we're announcing today that we're exploring new military sites which haven't been used for some time for that very
00:20purpose.
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