PA mediaTrade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said that the government has shared the “heavy disappointment” of the public under pressure from the shelter system on the supply of housing.
Talking to the BBC, he admitted concern about the home office competing with local councils to find temporary houses for shelter seekers and homeless people respectively.
He said that the solution is in the manufacture of more houses, processes the shelter applications rapidly, does not have any right to live in the UK and cuts the small boat crossing.
Earlier this week, the conservatives criticized the Sir Kir Stmper, claiming that there were many local authorities to provide temporary housing for homeless families “.
Conservative’s new shadow housing secretary Sir James cleverly told that the comment had “enhanced” the frustrations of those who were trying to go to the ladder of the housing.
Has seen in last week Demonstrations In the approach, she is being used for shelter seekers outside a hotel.
The Prime Minister commented on appearing in a group of senior MPs, appearing in the Logason Committee.
Labor MP Dame Meg Hilier, who presided over the Treasury Committee, asked the Prime Minister that the government was going to the homes of the homeless people, given that the price of the temporary housing was motivated by the need of those seeking asylum.
He replied: “Oh, a lot of housing and many local authorities can be used, and we are identifying where it can be used.”
Pressed for specific examples, Sir Kir said he would write to the committee.
Asked about the comments on the Today program, Rrenalds said that the Prime Minister was talking about “, in the long run, we need to make more space to resolve the housing crisis.
“We are doing this and there are many options that can be considered for British families in temporary housing.”
Talking to the same program, the Housing Committee Florence Esalomi’s chairman said the council was “at a braking point while talking about housing supply”.
He said that his committee was told that between 2023– 2024, local councils had spent a total of £ 2.3BN at temporary residence and there was an increase of 11% in the number of temporary houses in the last one year.
When asked about Sir Kir’s comments, he said “he was welcoming the Prime Minister in detail”.
He said that it could not be “correct” that the home office and local authorities had to compete for the same accommodation and need better “cooperation” between government departments.
He said that more social housing – housing that can be hired at cheaper levels – it needs to be built to reduce pressure.
The data released earlier this year found that a record 123,000 families were living in temporary housing in England.
The temporary housing refers to the housing that is conducted by the local authority, but not a permanent house. This may include hotels, hostels or caravan.
It is provided to those who are homeless, while they wait for long -term housing. A fellow or relative, pregnant women, people with dependent children, or homeless due to fire or flood, are given priority to people with risk of misconduct.
Separately, the government needs to provide housing to those who seek disappointing asylum by law, while their application is being processed. Normally shelter seekers are not allowed to work and earn money until their claim is met, although there are some exceptions.
Since 2020, there has been an increase in using the hotel to provide this housing.
As of March 2025, shelter hotels had 32,345 people, from 29,585 in late June 2024, but less than total in December.
Between April 2024 and March 2025, one -third of the annual accounts of the house office were performed from £ 3BN to £ 2.1bn.
A senior home office source told the BBC that one of the main factors behind the savings was taking some asylum seekers from hotels to other types of cheap housing.
He said that the department had given priority to families and children running in regular housing so that they were not staying in hotels for a long time.
The government has said that it wants to eliminate the use of hotels for completely shelter seekers and Reynold told the BBC that the number of hotels being used had fallen from 400 to 200 peaks.
However, he said: “The solution is not about putting people into various forms of housing
“It is about having a system where people should leave the UK if they should not be in the UK.
“This is the government’s policy … It is about having a system that processes claims at the speed they should be processed and does not leave people in Limbo.”
