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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00:00The British people rightly expect us to have control of who comes into our country.

00:05The party opposite said that they would take back control. Well, Mr Speaker, they lost control.

00:15With one failed policy after another, no control, no security.

00:22In contrast, in the budget last year, I announced £150 million to establish the new border security

00:29command. And today, to support the integrity of our borders, I can announce that that funding will

00:36increase with up to £280 million more per year by the end of the spending review for our new border

00:44security command. Alongside that, we are tackling the asylum backlog. The party opposite left behind

00:53a broken system. Billions of pounds of taxpayers' money spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels,

01:01leaving people in limbo and shunting the cost of failure onto local communities. We won't let

01:07that stand. So I can confirm today that, led by the work of my right honourable friend, the Home

01:14Secretary, we will be ending the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers in this Parliament.

01:23Funding that I have provided today, including from the Transformation Fund, will cut the asylum

01:29backlog, hear more appeal cases and return people who have no right to be here. Saving the taxpayer a

01:37billion pounds a year.

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