Most areas with asylum seeker hotels have Labour councils

According to the BBC analysis of data released by the government, more than half of the refugee hotels of asylum -seeking hotels are completely or partially controlled by labor.

On Tuesday, the Conservative-controlled Epting Forest District Council won a temporary prohibition in courts to prevent 140 asylum seekers living in Bell Hotel in EPING.

The ruling housing may obstruct the government’s efforts to fulfill their legal duties of shelter seekers, saying that they are also considering legal action.

Two Labor Councils are thinking about following the suit, but others have dismissed it with two, Newcastle and Brighton and Hov, saying that they wanted to provide “sanctuaries” to the refugees.

According to data published by the Home Office On Thursday, 131 out of more than 300 local officials of the UK are currently made from hotels in the so -called contingent residence.

Of the 131 regions, 74 are completely or partially led by labor, by 30 Liberal Democrats, by 19 conservatives, nine by Green Party and one improvement by UK.

The largest number of refugees living in contingent residence are Tory -New Hillingdon, where 2,238 asylum seekers are kept – about 0.7%of more than 300,000 people living in Boro, North London.

This number represents a collapse of 443 in months from the end of March to the end of June.

Hillingdon Epping is considering taking legal action after the ruling – two other conservative – along with intended regions: brocc first, reegeat and banasted.

Among the labor-controlled areas on the list, the highest number of houses are standing in 1,536 asylum seekers.

After Hillingdon and Hounslo, the largest level areas are:

• Barnet (Labor) – 1,243
• Birmingham (Labor) – 1,226
• Manchester (Labor) – 1,158
• Newham (Labor) – 852
• Bristol City (Green and Lib Dame) – 802
• Brent (Labor) – 755
• Bornmouth, Christchurch and Polay (Lib Dame & Ind) – 615
• Croidon (Orthodox) – 577

The Manchester City Council saw the biggest jump in the number from 874 to 1,158.

Councils on the entire list are mostly lower level districts or Boro Councils, or Unitual Councils that connect the functions of district and county councils into one.

These councils have powers on planning applications, which means that they can be selected to take legal action against the hotels being used for walking on the footsteps of the Eating Council and the asylum seekers.

These powers do not have these powers in the County Council, which are mainly under UK or conservative control.

Reform UK leader Nigel Faraj has said that all the 12 councils controlled by his party will “do everything in their power to follow the leadership of EPING”.

However, reform spokesperson Zia Yusuf admitted that those councils have only “one minority” plan control.

An reform UK -led council that will be able to take legal action on the scheme is West Northamptonshire Council, considering the implication of EPPID decision.

Some Labor Councils have suggested that they may make legal challenges – the Viral Council said that “legal advice is being taken” while Tamworth Boro Council said it “is reviewing our legal status”.

Earlier this week, the Epping Forest District Council succeeded in its legal bid to prevent shelter seekers from being kept in a hotel in their area, when the High Court ruled that individuals would have to transfer to 16:00 BST on 12 September.

The council had successfully argued that the hotel had violated local planning rules by changing its use without advice or notification of the local authority.

Epting also argued that its case was different from the previous unsuccessful council dialects as the hotel had become a public safety risk.

Thousands of people were protesting near the hotel near the hotel after alleging sexual harassment of a 14 -year -old girl in the city.

According to home office data released on Thursday, overall, the number of shelter seekers in UK hotels has increased to 32,059 in the last one year.

However, compared to a year ago, the total is slightly below in the previous quarter – and well down to the peak of 56,042 in September 2023.

Home Secretary Yatete Cooper said that the Labor Government had inherited a broken immigration and refuge system which was left in anarchy by the previous government “.

He said: “The action we have taken in the last 12 months – the returns of unsuccessful refugees are more than 30%, cut the cost of asylum by 11%, reducing the backlog to 18%and our upcoming plan to overhala the unsuccessful refuge appeal system – are important steps to restore.”

Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Filp wrote to Cooper that he urges to use former military sites or barge used as refuge houses instead of hotels.

Lisa Smart, a spokesman for Liberal Democrat Home Affairs, said: “Orthodoxies crossed our immigration system and spirals the numbers. Now this labor government is failing to hold the crisis.

“The government needs to speed up asylum processing to prevent immediate dangerous channel crossings and use backlog and end hotel once and for all.”