Usual evidence-free claim from Home Office.
Asylum-seekers are “pulled” to UK by the hope of ... overcrowded grotty “hotels” + £8 per week.
So they need to be put in new-built “centres” instead...
Asylum-seekers are “pulled” to UK by the hope of ... overcrowded grotty “hotels” + £8 per week.
So they need to be put in new-built “centres” instead...
For 20 years U.K. Gov has “dispersed” asylum-seekers away from arrival points (London/SE England) to areas with cheaper housing - and to spread responsibility across all regions.
Patel will reverse that and build accommodation centres in SE England.
Patel will reverse that and build accommodation centres in SE England.
As @refugeecouncil explains - asylum-seekers don’t come here for the accommodation. thetimes.co.uk/article/917ebf…
Since 1994, UK Home Secs have repeatedly increased controls on asylum-seekers, always claiming that freedoms “pull”, and removing them will cut applications.
They’re insatiable. Ask them what *isn’t* a pull factor, please!
They’re insatiable. Ask them what *isn’t* a pull factor, please!
Asylum-seekers used to have right to work - but not for first six months then:
1994: ended access to income support
1999: when destitute asylum-seekers turned to local authorities, Home Office takes over provision of accommodation.
1994: ended access to income support
1999: when destitute asylum-seekers turned to local authorities, Home Office takes over provision of accommodation.
2000: Home Office runs asylum-seeker accommodation - voucher only system. Less than income support rates. People find they can’t get change or choose the cheapest shops.
2002: Gov bars asylum-seekers from supporting themselves by working
2005: new EU law requires UK to let asylum-seekers work if they’ve been waiting *a year* for a Home Office decision +
2005: new EU law requires UK to let asylum-seekers work if they’ve been waiting *a year* for a Home Office decision +
2010: Supreme Court orders Gov to give permission to work to asylum-seekers waiting a year for a *second* Home Office decision
Home Office responds by limiting permission to shortage occupations. Like surgeons. 🤦 +
Home Office responds by limiting permission to shortage occupations. Like surgeons. 🤦 +
2019: Home Office gives 10 year, billion £ contracts to Serco, Clearsprings, Mears to arrange asylum-seeker accommodation. asylummatters.org/wp-content/upl…
2019: While Serco avoid accommodating asylum-seekers by coming to pick them up from home when they’re at the doctors, Home Office tells High Court contracts are great deal because fixed charge to HO for each person - regardless of cost of accommodation + bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/…
2020: pandemic. Home Office has tied in 3 big businesses to a duty to arrange accommodation at no extra cost to Gov *and* UK hotels are empty!
But Home Office tells them to take over a semi-abandoned barracks & training camp?
Why - except to create dangerous conditions? +
But Home Office tells them to take over a semi-abandoned barracks & training camp?
Why - except to create dangerous conditions? +
2021: 8 years of billion £ accomm contracts to run. But Home Office wants to spend public money building new “reception” centres ... because grotty vermin-ridden hotels, no work and hardly any money are“pull factor”?
How will they make living in a centres nastier than that? /end
How will they make living in a centres nastier than that? /end
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