PA mediaSingle adult men who seek asylum who refuse to leave the hotel will risk being homeless in “appropriate alternative housing”, the house office has said.
The government – which is legally bound to the depressing shelter seekers of the house – states that its new “failure to travel will establish a clear result for the” guidance “system.
According to home office sources, hundreds of migrants are refusing to move from hotels to other forms every week.
This comes when the government is coming under pressure to reduce the number of hotels being used for asylum housing.
Last week has seen a series of demonstrations in an approach to a hotel housing shelter seekers.
The ministers have said that the government wants to end the use of hotels for housing shelters by 2029 and is trying to transfer people to cheap housing.
The number in hotels was increasing from 2020, and reached the summit of over 50,000 in 2023. In March 2025, the Sharan Hotel had a population of 32,345.
New guidance released on Friday Home Office Cassworkers and asylum housing providers said that some refugee seekers’ failure to travel to appropriate housing “was reducing the” overall efficiency of asylum aid system “.
Under the rules, persons transferred from hotels will be given at least five days notice in writing.
Those who fail to move continuously will be evicted from their residence and can withdraw their financial support.
In general, shelter seekers are not allowed to work, while they are waiting for the government to process their application to live in the UK.
To help costs for food, clothing and toilets, they are usually given around £ 49.18 per person per week.
The previous orthodox government took a similar view when it threatened to snatch support from them Who refused the board Bibbi Stockholm, a bargain used for housing.
The Minister of Border Security and asylum, Dame Angela Eagle, said that guidance was another example of this government’s action to change the refuge housing system and crack on those who misuse our systems, so it operates impartially and saves the taxpayer’s money “.
Lisa Smart MP, a spokesman for Liberal Democrat Home Affairs, said it was “right that the government was taking steps to end the use of asylum hotels”.
But he said: “To deal with the scale of the problem more effectively, the government should focus on reducing the need to pay for asylum through the improving the government through improving cross-border cooperation and banning the refugee seekers.”
