UK Home Office Warns Asylum Seekers: Move or Lose Support as Hotel Costs Soar

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Single male asylum seekers who reject moving from hotels to alternative accommodation face homelessness, the Home Office has announced.

 

The government asserts that those not complying with the “Failure to Travel” guidance are risking essential support and accommodation. Hundreds are reportedly refusing these transfers each week, complicating efforts to free up hotel spaces.

 

The government is eager to phase out the use of hotels for asylum seekers by 2029, amid growing pressure. Notably, Epping has seen protests near local hotels housing asylum seekers. With hotel usage peaking at over 50,000 in 2023, numbers have since reduced to 32,345 in March 2025.

 

The latest Home Office guidance emphasises the need to provide efficient asylum support. Under new rules, those moved from hotels receive a five-day notice. Persistent non-compliance could lead to eviction and loss of financial aid.

 

Typically, asylum seekers are prohibited from working while their applications are processed. They receive a weekly allowance of approximately £49.18 for essentials. The approach mirrors past actions from previous governments, including threats to withdraw support for those refusing barge accommodation.

 

Dame Angela Eagle, Minister for Border Security and Asylum, emphasised that the guidance aims to transform the asylum system and curb abuses, benefiting taxpayers. Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart agreed with the need to reduce hotel use but urged a focus on curbing Channel crossings and allowing asylum seekers to work.

 

Concerns remain regarding the impact on those left without accommodation or financial support. The government's stance is part of a broader strategy to manage asylum seeker housing and financial implications while striving for system efficiency.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from BBC 2025-07-29

 

 

[impulse]

Someone who knows, please help me out here...  Where are they being sent once they're booted from their hotel?  On £49.18 a week, they surely can't afford to rent a place.  And apparently, they're not allowed to work while their asylum case is being adjudicated.

 

That seems like a recipe for criminal activity.

 

[JonnyF]

1 hour ago, impulse said:

Someone who knows, please help me out here...  Where are they being sent once they're booted from their hotel?  On £49.18 a week, they surely can't afford to rent a place.  And apparently, they're not allowed to work while their asylum case is being adjudicated.

 

That seems like a recipe for criminal activity.

 

 

I think there was talk of the government renting houses from private landlords. Offering them guaranteed rent for 5 years in exchange for having your house trashed and being hated by your neighbours for eternity.

 

In my opinion anyone refusing to move should be deported or jailed. They shouldn't get to choose their free accomodation any more than they get to choose their free smartphone.

 

Making them homeless would indeed be a recipe for disaster. 

[impulse]

11 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I think there was talk of the government renting houses from private landlords. Offering them guaranteed rent for 5 years in exchange for having your house trashed and being hated by your neighbours for eternity.

 

Sounds like a creamy dream for Private Equity.  Not so great for the neighborhood...  Nor for young families dreaming of buying their first home.

 

[FlorC]

Let the people who want these "asylum seekers" pay.

[JustinCredible]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

Someone who knows, please help me out here...  Where are they being sent once they're booted from their hotel?  On £49.18 a week, they surely can't afford to rent a place.  And apparently, they're not allowed to work while their asylum case is being adjudicated.

 

That seems like a recipe for criminal activity.

 

 

Hopefully into a Tent within a secure compound.

[actonion]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

Someone who knows, please help me out here...  Where are they being sent once they're booted from their hotel?  On £49.18 a week, they surely can't afford to rent a place.  And apparently, they're not allowed to work while their asylum case is being adjudicated.

 

That seems like a recipe for criminal activity.

 

Tent city. like the one in the middle of the dual carrigeway of park lane  central london or a public park near you, lock up your Daughters

[newbee2022]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Concerns remain regarding the impact on those left without accommodation or financial support

What would they do to spend a comfortable life?

Stealing, dealing, trafficking?

Order them to work. There's a lot to do?

 

[boloaf]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

Someone who knows, please help me out here...  Where are they being sent once they're booted from their hotel?  On £49.18 a week, they surely can't afford to rent a place.  And apparently, they're not allowed to work while their asylum case is being adjudicated.

 

That seems like a recipe for criminal activity.

 

HMOs.

[John Drake]

Tent compounds, encircled with barbed wire. Make them earn their way, too. They must construct, maintain, and clean their own latrines, grow their own food and cook it.

[Callmeishmael]

There's got to be some kind or rational balance between the US "Alligator Alcatraz" and the UK "all expenses paid luxury vacation"!
 

[Watawattana]

21 minutes ago, JustinCredible said:

 

Hopefully into a Tent within a secure compound.

With alligators as 'guards'.  Or surrounded by pikies or in some of the more 'interesting' areas of the UK's cities so that these people will feel safer in the home countries.

[impulse]

18 minutes ago, Callmeishmael said:

There's got to be some kind or rational balance between the US "Alligator Alcatraz" and the UK "all expenses paid luxury vacation"!

 

Alligator Alcatraz is the rational balance.

 

[John Drake]

8 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Alligator Alcatraz is the rational balance.

 

 

Alligator Alcatraz is Club Med compared to what should be in place. 

[DaRoadrunner]

It is not difficult to solve the migrant problem. Stop the free food, accommodation, benefits, medical care, asylum and the migrants will stop coming, as there would be nothing here for them. Then deport the lot of them and take back our country.

 

These are not proper asylum seekers, but invaders bent on taking over the UK. Note how they worm their way into positions of authority.

 

Starmer has to go first.

[portisaacozzy]

3 hours ago, impulse said:

Someone who knows, please help me out here...  Where are they being sent once they're booted from their hotel?  On £49.18 a week, they surely can't afford to rent a place.  And apparently, they're not allowed to work while their asylum case is being adjudicated.

 

That seems like a recipe for criminal activity.

 

they are being sent to non hotel accomodation. dont ask !!!!

[Thingamabob]

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

Tent compounds, encircled with barbed wire. Make them earn their way, too. They must construct, maintain, and clean their own latrines, grow their own food and cook it.

Solutions. If the armed forces and the police were still loyal they could be commanded to round up all asylum seekers, illegal entrants etc , and their families, and place them in tented accommodation in deserted locations, secured by a permanent armed guard. There they should stay while their cases are being legally processed. Alternatively locate an overseas country ,eg Rwanda, which would accommodate them pending their applications to stay in the UK being processed.

Problems. The questionable loyalty of the police who would be ordered to assist and less, but similar, concerns, about the degree of commitment of certain members of high command in the armed forces.

As Labour, childishly, rejected the Rwsnda plan on day one of its' tenure, other potential countries for the placement of applicants pending their processing need to.be located.

[JonnyF]

1 hour ago, DaRoadrunner said:

It is not difficult to solve the migrant problem. Stop the free food, accommodation, benefits, medical care, asylum and the migrants will stop coming, as there would be nothing here for them. Then deport the lot of them and take back our country.

 

They know how to stop it.

 

They don't want to. 

[Olav Seglem]

Isnt there any "army barracks" not in use for theese "temporary" purposes ?

And, the money paid: are this for "living expences" after government paid rent/electrisity?

[John Drake]

51 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Problems. The questionable loyalty of the police who would be ordered to assist and less, but similar, concerns, about the degree of commitment of certain members of high command in the armed forces.

 

Be thankful they haven't undertaken the Irish solution, which apparently is to hire the asylum seekers as guards, not to keep watch over the foreign mobs of course but to intimidate and strongarm the Irish protesting against them.

[Thingamabob]

19 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

They know how to stop it.

 

They don't want to. 

Labour are treacherously grubbing about for Islamic votes, as they are with the youth vote. Misguided and mislead on both counts I suspect.

[bkk_mike]

2 hours ago, FlorC said:

Let the people who want these "asylum seekers" pay.

Let the people who voted for the Tories who literally stopped processing asylum claims pay.

They let the numbers in the system shoot up as nobody was either getting through and allowed in as a genuine asylum seeker (once you're through the process, you're allowed to work), or deported as a non-genuine asylum seeker.

Putting up people while they're being processed is supposed to be temporary...