Migrant hotels will be used for four more years despite pledge to close them down, Home Office admits

Hotels will continue to be used to house asylum seekers for four more years, the Home Office’s top civil servant has estimated.

Sir Matthew Rycroft, the Home Office’s permanent secretary, told MPs that the department’s aim was to “get to zero” asylum hotels being used by the end of this parliament, but that “ups and downs” might affect that promise.