Migrant crisis will get ‘significantly more serious’ warns Ellwood

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Private firms have reported eye-watering profits as the Government cashes out millions of pounds every day to put up asylum seekers in the UK.

The BBC reported that documents show one booking agency used by the Home Office trebled its pre-tax profits.

The company reportedly increased its profits from £2.1million to £6.3million in the 12 months up to February 2022.

While Westminster has not publicly confirmed the number of hotels involved, a source revealed it is now using 395 to accommodate more than 51,000 asylum seekers.

It is believed the massive undertaking is costing over £6million every day.

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Out of the nearly 400 hotels, the majority are in England, with only 20 in Northern Ireland, 10 in Scotland and two in Wales.

The use of hotels for asylum seekers in the UK has increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic, reports claim.

This is despite repeated pledges from the Home Office to end the use of this accommodation.

According to the Government’s own data, there was a spike in contingency accommodation, which is largely hotels, from 2,577 people in March 2020 to 37,142 in September last year.

While the number of people in dispersal accommodation, typically shared housing, in March 2020 was much higher than the hotel figure, at 41,388, the level of increase in percentage and actual terms by September 2022 was much lower.

However, during this period an extra 34,565 people were placed in hotel accommodation and only 11,910 were placed in shared housing.

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Earlier this month, The Telegraph found that 42 of the 48 English counties now have hotels accommodating asylum seekers.

Small boat arrivals, which accounted for about 45 percent of asylum applications in 2022, are at record levels and reports have found that the backlog of asylum cases now has piled up to about 166,000.

However, the BBC used Freedom of Information requests to ask all UK councils how many hotels were being used for asylum seekers and how many individuals were living in them and of the 398 councils approached, 320 responded.

The majority said there were no hotels or asylum seekers in their area, or referred the BBC to the Home Office.

A Home Office spokesperson said the Government was “committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer”.

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