The government has announced a new package of £35 million to help local councils in the UK move Afghan refugees from hotels into permanent housing.
It comes after the Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer said the £1 million daily cost of housing around 8,000 Afghan refugees, half of them children, is unsustainable.
Under new plans announced today (28 March), families housed in hotels will be written to at the end of April, and will be told they have 'at least three months notice' before they are forced out, the PA news agency reports.
