by Experts have wondered whether Rachel Reeves can fulfill the promise of expenses that she made on Wednesday, as many of them need a sudden and unprecedented decline in the asylum.
The Chancellor said on Wednesday that she would save 1 billion pound by drastically reducing the number of asylum seekers who are waiting for a decision about her claims and ending the use of hotels to accommodate them.
Politicians are aimed at both to gain the reform voters, many of whom have the use of asylum hotels as the main concern, and to free cash for other priorities such as affordable apartments. However, economists and auxiliary experts warned that the savings would be difficult to achieve.
Jonathan Thomas, a leading scholarship holder of the social market foundation Thintank, said: “The political priority is to end the costly use of asylum hotels in this parliament, not by submitting asylum applicants elsewhere, but by” clearing the asylum behind, increasing the appeal capacity and continuation of the capacity of the complaint, for the complaint, To pass on those to return those who without right to be here without being right.
“All of these things are really difficult to do and – assuming that the investment in the border security order is not sufficient to prevent people from arriving in the UK – as a hostage of Fortune, who and how many continue to arrive in Great Britain to claim asylum.”
Gideon Rabinowitz, director of politics and advocacy at Bond, who represents aid organizations, said that there is “lack of urgency within the government to reduce these costs”.
Before the election, the work promised to end the use of hotels for asylum seekers. A high -ranking civil servant of the Interior Ministry confirmed this year that the ambition would be to achieve this until the end of Parliament.
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On Wednesday, however, Reeves stuck the expected savings of this guideline in the government’s budgets, which means that the ministers now have to reach to spend what they want elsewhere. Her adjutants said that the reduction of the asylum deficit would enable the apartment department to spend less for housing construction employees in temporary accommodations – cash that instead used for the program for affordable houses of 4 billion GBP per year.
So far, the home office was hardly successful in reducing hotel costs. A large part of the hotel editions of the department for asylum seekers are considered international help. However, documents that have been published last week show that this year it should spend 2.2 billion GBP for the help – only slightly below the 2.3 billion GBP, which it spent last year.
Minister say your plans in the next few years will enable you to quickly reduce the dependence on asylum hotels. For example, the Home Office plans to bring more people into an empty “medium -sized” accommodation. Officials check suggestions of almost 200 councils that repeated the decommissioned tower blocks and student accommodation.
Angela Eagle, the immigration minister, said on Tuesday that the government had received 198 applications for unused apartments, which also included former teaching colleagues.
The minister appeared before the selection committee for internal transactions and said the government discussed proposals from the local authorities to investigate “medium -sized” accommodation options.
These could replace the current use of hotels, but on a smaller and more local scale, work as disused military bases, as suggested by the last government.
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“The idea with medium sizes are things like old, coherent tower blocks or old teacher training universities or old accommodations for students who are not used where they could have a number of rooms that are more than they would get with distributed accommodations,” she said. “The idea is that you would go into things from hotels more like old military bases or Pontins Holiday Parks.”
Karen Bradley, the conservative chair of the committee, said on Wednesday: “If hotels disappear, short-term accommodations still have to occur to deal with unpredictable standards on irregular migration. Goals themselves are not sufficient, they must be delivered-and for that we have to have soluble solutions.”
“If these savings are not achieved, the ability of the Ministry of the Interior to achieve its broader goals will give an impact on the ability of the Ministry of the Interior. Police work, immigration and terror will have all difficulties to achieve the ambitious goals that the government has set itself.”
