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Housing asylum seekers in military barracks will be hugely expensive – and politically costly

In an effort to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, the UK government has announced that 900 people will be moved to military sites. Though this is a small fraction of the 32,000 currently housed in hotels, the Home Office hopes that up to 10,000 people might…

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‘We fled to the UK to start a new life - now my son is depressed and malnourished’

Teenage asylum seeker vomits after every meal at Home Office hotel because the food is so bad, his mother claims

The Independent UK

Billions squandered on asylum hotels because of Home Office ‘incompetence’

Home Office oversight over asylum accommodation is chaotic and incompetent, causing costs to spiral, influential group of MPs warns

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Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation

Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding

The Guardian - UK

Home Office ‘did not respond to concerns’ about man who died on Bibby Stockholm

An inquest has heard that Albanian Leonard Farruku was said to have ‘serious mental health issues’.

Evening Standard

Repeated failings at migrant hotel where asylum seeker killed himself exposed

Special report: Staff at hotel were ‘not appropriately trained’ and Home Office officials didn’t know who was providing crucial services

The Independent UK

London hotels threaten to evict asylum seekers over unpaid Home Office contract

The threat comes as the number of migrants arriving on small boats over the last three months reached record levels

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Head of security at Essex centre for disabled asylum seekers removed over alleged far-right views

YouTube channel apparently belonging to official at Clacton accommodation suggests support for EDL and Tommy Robinson

The Guardian - UK

Profits of Home Office asylum housing provider rise to £90m a year

Graham King, boss of contractor Clearsprings, entered Sunday Times rich list with net worth of £750m

The Guardian - UK

Asylum housing tycoon is among the UK’s wealthiest – here’s what conditions are like inside the properties his company runs

The Sunday Times rich list is a stark symbol of the growing inequality in the UK. As many people face worsening living conditions, a small few are becoming ever richer. Among them for the first time this year is Graham King, an Essex businessman who has accumulated a £750 million…

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Home Office food provision leaving some asylum seekers malnourished – report

Research claims people have been hospitalised and children are ‘crying with hunger’ due to poor quality of food from contractors

The Guardian - UK

Walthamstow: Hundreds of asylum seekers told to leave Ibis hotel by tomorrow

Residents have been told their rooms will 'no longer be available' from Friday

Evening Standard

Home Office barred charity over claims it encouraged asylum seeker ‘complaints’

Robert Jenrick banned Care4Calais from Napier barracks after suggestions it encouraged asylum seekers to talk to media

The Guardian - UK

Companies providing housing for UK asylum seekers make £113m profit

Combined profits of Clearsprings Ready Homes and Stay Belvedere Hotels prompt criticism from refugee charities

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Asylum seeker camp fatcat splashes out £1m on plush Scots mansion

James Vyvyan-Robinson bought a sprawling property in Perthshire.

Daily Mirror

'Decrepit camp' fatcat lives in £1m luxury mansion as refugees left in squalid conditions

Former Army major James Vyvyan-Robinson and his wife Nicola splashed out on a riverside home complete with music room and drawing room - but refugees live in squalid conditions

The Guardian - UK

Firm managing hotels for UK asylum seekers posts bumper profits

Three directors of Clearsprings Ready Homes share dividends of almost £28m, as profits rise sixfold

Daily Mirror

Rats, sewage and cockroaches - UK's 'failed asylum system is unfit for Ukraine crisis'

A Mirror investigation into asylum services run by Mears, Serco and Clearsprings on behalf of the Home Office has highlighted serious issues with accommodation

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