Seven asylum accommodations will shut within the new yr, the house secretary has mentioned.
Yvette Cooper instructed the House Affairs Choose Committee she had been capable of order the closures as a result of the federal government had introduced the asylum backlog down.
She mentioned that was work “we are determined to keep making progress on”.
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In the course of the election Labour promised to finish using asylum accommodations, the place asylum seekers are housed whereas their claims are processed.
However final month Dame Angela Eagle, the border safety minister, mentioned extra accommodations for asylum seekers had opened since Labour got here into authorities.
Dame Angela mentioned there have been 220 accommodations used for asylum seekers, with seven having shut since July – however 14 extra had opened.
In keeping with Dame Angela, there are at present round 116,000 asylum seekers “stuck in a backlog” of greater than two years.
The minister blamed the state of affairs on the insurance policies of the earlier authorities, arguing that the system “ground to a standstill” as a result of the Tories have been busy pursuing the Rwanda coverage “which was doomed to failure”.
The Labour Celebration instantly scrapped the coverage – which might have despatched these getting into the UK illegally to settle in Rwanda – on getting into into authorities, branding it a “gimmick” and a waste of cash.
Nonetheless, the Conservatives have argued that in scrapping the Rwanda scheme, the federal government has eliminated a key deterrent for these seeking to enter the UK illegally.
The latest statistics present greater than 35,000 migrants have arrived within the UK to this point this yr after crossing the Channel, together with some 21,306 individuals who have arrived by small boat since 5 July – the day after Labour was voted in.
In the meantime, the price of the UK asylum system has risen to £5bn, the very best degree of House Workplace spending on report and up by greater than a 3rd in a yr.
Final month Sir Keir Starmer was criticised for not together with lowering immigration in his authorities’s milestones.
Nonetheless, the prime minister mentioned migration wants to come back down.
“It is our duty to do it [bring migration down]. And we will do it,” he mentioned.
The federal government has claimed that extra migrants have been faraway from the UK since Labour was elected than in every other six-month interval over the previous 5 years.
The House Workplace introduced on the weekend that just about 13,460 individuals had been eliminated since Labour’s landslide victory.
