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BREAKING NEWS | 120 Asylum Seekers Could Soon Be Given Accommodation At The Three Counties Hotel


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Hereford Voice has today come into possession of a document sent from the Home Office to Herefordshire Council requesting the resettlement of a minimum of 120 Asylum Seekers in Hereford's Three Counties Hotel.

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In the letter sent from Ann Smith (MCIPS)Deputy Director | Resettlement, Asylum Support & Integration says;

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"We have identified the Three Counties Hotel, Belmont Rd, Hereford HR2 7BP as a site to be used to accommodate asylum seekers and are therefore bringing this to your attention so that we can address any concerns you may have. Due to the demands on the system we intend to stand up this site in line with our new guidance, and would like to work with you to determine which cohort would best fit to this site and I can confirm it has a maximum bed space of 120"

Herefordshire Council would also be expected to pick up all the costs associated, including providing, healthcare, school, free schools dinners etc...

See all of the relevant documents attached below;

Resettlement of Asylunm Seekers 1.pdf

Resettlement of Asylunm Seekers 2.pdf

Health Protection For Migrants 1.pdf

Scabies.pdf

NHS Asylum Seekers.pdf

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You may want to see this article in The Guardian today of other towns holding meetings to discuss asylum seekers staying in town centre hotels. I wonder what Jesse Norman's views on this are?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/17/asylum-seekers-living-in-fear-far-right-uk-anti-migrant-protests-planned

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1 hour ago, megilleland said:

You may want to see this article in The Guardian today of other towns holding meetings to discuss asylum seekers staying in town centre hotels. I wonder what Jesse Norman's views on this are?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/17/asylum-seekers-living-in-fear-far-right-uk-anti-migrant-protests-planned

I see he has been tagged into some of the comment on the Hereford Voice Facebook article, so it will be interesting to see what his take on this is.

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This could be a ploy to accept a supermarket rather than asylum seekers which would work well in Lidl's favour, but I don't want either. After all we are all going to get older and need care in one form or another and having a local resource south side would be better for all of us. Democracy is dead - corporatism rules the world. An understanding of Joseph Schumpeter an early 19th century Austrian political economist who came up with the phrase "creative destruction" leads us to our present day problems with the conservative and world governments.

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In The Guardian today:

(extract)

‘Humanitarian visa’ could cut number of asylum seekers reaching UK by boat

A cross-party group is urging Suella Braverman to adopt plan that would allow 40,000 people a year to seek asylum in Britain

However, a growing cross-party group of political figures is backing a new specialised visa that would allow 40,000 people a year to seek asylum. The proposal has been drawn up by the independent thinktank British Future. It said that rather than ratcheting up expectations and rhetoric, a new visa stream would make asylum case processing and safe returns “faster and fairer”, while also saving money on hotel accommodation created by a backlog of cases.

The plan would see a visa made available to anyone with a strong asylum claim or links to the UK, issued at British consulates at locations away from the French and Belgian coasts.

Last year saw a huge increase in the number of people making the perilous journey across the Channel. A total of 45,756 people made the trip, up from just 1,900 in 2019. At least 50 people have drowned or are missing, including 32 people who died when a boat capsized in November 2021.

Asylum processing delays are now severe. At the end of September, just 7% of asylum applicants were processed within a six-month period. The bill for emergency hotel accommodation for asylum seekers, who are not allowed to work while their case is processed, is currently £5.6m a day.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/humanitarian-visa-could-cut-number-of-asylum-seekers-reaching-uk-by-boat

 

Looking at the figures quoted:

£39.2m a week

£156.8m a month

£1,881m a year

I suppose it's better than buying bombs.

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In The Daily Depress today;

Migrant backlog hits record 150,000 but top civil servant doesn't think crisis is priority

Asylum-seekers waiting in around 40,000 hotels across the UK are costing close to £7million a day.

and The Telegraph reports that as a result of the backlog, taxpayers face a £2.1billion bill in order to adequately house those that have crossed over from France into the UK.

According to The Refugee Council, it is likely as many as 50,000 asylum seekers are waiting between one and three years for decisions on their applications and more than 10,000 could be facing waits between three and five years.

 

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Asylum backlog hits record high as Home Office launches 'streamlined' applications

More than 160,000 people waiting on asylum decisions – quadruple the number at the end of 2019

The Home Office asylum backlog has hit record levels, with nearly 110,000 asylum seekers left waiting for a decision on their case for more than six months, new figures show.

There are 160,919 people waiting on asylum decisions as of the end of 2022 – quadruple the number awaiting an initial decision at the end of 2019, before the Covid pandemic – according to figures published by the department yesterday. 

The number of cases in the backlog – which accounts for people applying directly for asylum and their dependents – hit 132,182, a 60% increase on 2021 and the highest number since the earliest records in 2010.

 

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On 13/03/2023 at 09:18, megilleland said:

Interesting that the owner of the hotel is very quiet - He is obviously content with the situation. 

The owners do not care nor do they care about their staff. Yet it’s the poor staff that need their job and have been put in this unwanted situation that have had to put up with abusive phone calls from the public. This is not fair to them as I know they are being informed of nothing.

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