Closing asylum hotels must be ‘orderly’ says Home Secretary
Home Secretary Yvete Cooper has said closing asylum hotels must be “orderly” and not be through “piecemeal court decisions.”
She said ministers are working to close hotels that are housing asylum seekers “as swiftly as possible” and as part of an “orderly” programme.
She added: “We agree with communities across the country that all asylum hotels need to close, including the Bell hotel, and we are working to do so as swiftly as possible as part of an orderly, planned and sustained programme that avoids simply creating problems for other areas or local councils as a result of piecemeal court decisions or a return to the kind of chaos which led to so many hotels being opened in the first place.
“That is the reason for the Home Office appeal in this case, to ensure that going forward, the closure of all hotels can be done in a properly managed way right across the country – without creating problems for other areas and local councils.”
