Reeves: Hotel use for asylum seekers to end this Parliament

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Rachel Reeves said the use of hotels to house asylum seekers will end this Parliament. She pledged funding to cut the backlog, hear more appeals and return those with no right to stay. The changes aim to save taxpayers £1bn a year, Reeves told MPs during her spending review. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Our planning reforms have opened up the opportunity to build. Now we must act to

00:06make the most of those opportunities and a plan to match the scale of the

00:11housing crisis must include social housing. Neglected for too many decades

00:18but not by this Labour government. And so led by my right honourable friend the

00:24Deputy Prime Minister we are taking action. I am proud to announce the

00:30biggest cash injection into social and affordable housing in 50 years. A new

00:38affordable homes program in which I am investing £39 billion over the next

00:44decade. Direct government funding to support house building especially for

00:51social rent. And I am pleased to report that towns and cities including

00:56Blackpool, Preston, Sheffield and Swindon have already had plans to bring forward

01:02bids to build those homes in their communities. And I have gone further.

01:07Mr Speaker last autumn I enabled greater use of financial transactions to support

01:13investment in our infrastructure alongside strict guardrails that ensure that money

01:18is spent wisely through our public financial institutions. And so in line

01:23with that commitment I am providing an additional £10 billion for financial

01:27investments including to be delivered through Homes England. To crowd in private

01:32investment and unlock hundreds of thousands more homes. Homes built by a

01:37Labour government. Homes built for working people.

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