Government plans to overhaul asylum appeals system

Ian Watson

Political Correspondent, BBC News

The Border Force Officers processed the first small boat migrants detained under the new “One in, One Out” deal of the UK at Mansston Immigration Processing Center in Mansstone, Kent earlier this month.

PA media staff in dark uniform and high-vision jacket looks as two rows of track suits and sandals, waiting for two long rows of chairs in a large room that looks like a warehouse. — The Border Force Officers processed the first small boat migrants detained under the new “One in, One Out” deal of the UK at Mansston Immigration Processing Center in Mansstone, Kent earlier this month.

The government is planning an overhaul of the refuge appeal system, as it tries to cut the number of migrants living in hotels, while they wait for a decision.

A new, independent body will be installed, by the employees, by the employees, the purpose of listening more rapidly.

Home Secretary, Yett Cooper said that she was taking practical steps to end unacceptable delays.

The pressure is increasing to reduce its dependence on the government ash hotels. It now wants to re -achieve the initiative.

The ministers have promised to end the use of the hotel in this Parliament – but 32,000 asylum seekers are still kept in them.

Cooper said that when the initial decisions on the shelter applications were intensified, there was “unacceptable delay” when the rejected people decided to appeal.

Currently, an appeal hearing takes average average time in a year and 51,000 cases are awaiting a decision.

During this time, those who have failed refuge are adjusted at the expense of taxpayers.

Therefore a new panel of independent assistant is to be appointed to deal with the appeal – ministers believe that it will work faster than the courts.

The government has promised more information about how it will speed up cases in autumn.

Conservaties have said that the system is in chaos Improvement UK has argued for large -scale exile of those who reach by illegal or irregular routes.,

Desperate in last week, where shelter seekers have been kept Performance across UK To oppose the use of hotels on Saturday.

Eptings have been a focal point for protesters since July, in which thousands of people were performing outside the Bell Hotel, a resident of Sharan, a resident of Sharan, was accused of sexually assaulting a 14 -year -old girl in the city.

High court on Tuesday The council was given a temporary prohibition to block the shelter In Bell Hotel, after arguing that the hotel violated local planning controls by changing its use, resulting in such incidents that were a public safety risk.

Currently residence should be taken out by 16:00 pm on September 12.

The government is seeking the right to appeal against the decision of the High Court.

Cooper said that the government was committed to closing all the refuge hotels, but needed to be in a “proper managed methods”.

Many other councils are considering taking legal action after alleged decisions, Including the Tory-controlled Hillingdon, which currently have 2,238 asylum seekers.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch published an open letter that urged the leaders of the Orthodox Council that “if your legal advice supports it”, then to take the same steps, while Nigel Faraj of the UK wrote in the Telegraph that his party -controlled councils will do “everything in their power” to follow the leadership of the applying councils.

According to data published by the Home Office earlier this week, Of the more than 300 local authorities in the UK, 131 are currently having asylum seekers in “casual housing”.Mainly made of hotels.

Of those 131 regions, 74 are fully or partially led by labor, by 30 Liberal Democrats, by 19 conservators, nine by Green Party and one by one improvement by UK.