Two hotels near Derbyshire towns will stop being used to house asylum seekers, potentially within the next three months. And if they are not in the first group to be exited, it would be "very soon", according to Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick.
A backlog in the processing of asylum cases and record net migration into the UK last year meant that asylum seekers were placed in hundreds of hotels across the country. These included the Novotel and Best Western hotels on Bostocks Lane - between Long Eaton and Sandiacre - where around 400 people were housed at one stage.
The Novotel was the scene of a protest, against asylum-seekers staying there, earlier this year, although the protestors were outnumbered by counter-demonstrators, who supported the rights of asylum-seekers.
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The Government has now announced that it will have stopped using 50 hotels across the country to house asylum seekers by January. Mr Jenrick, who is also the Conservative MP for Newark, confirmed the news in the House of Commons earlier this week, Nottinghamshire Live reports.
He said: "These hotels should be assets for their local communities... not housing illegal migrants at unsustainable costs to the taxpayer. As a result of the progress we've made to stop the boats, today the Home Office wrote to local authorities and MPs to inform them that we will now be exiting the first asylum hotels."
Maggie Throup, the Conservative MP for Erewash, asked Mr Jenrick about the hotels in her constituency by saying: "Will my right honourable friend deliver on a commitment he made to me at the dispatch box on September 5 and confirm that the two hotels on Bostocks Lane are the top of his priority list for closure. If he can't deliver that good news, why not?"
Mr Jenrick replied: "I did make a promise a year ago when I took on this role that we would close hotels and I'm pleased to be able to deliver upon that today. We will be writing to all those who are part of the first tranche today or tomorrow and I'd be very happy to stay in touch with her if she isn't part of that tranche. But if she isn't, then we'll do everything we can to make sure that her hotels are exited very soon."
He added in Parliament that following the first 50 hotels by the end of January, the Government will "not stop there" in exiting more facilities.
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