Asylum Seekers: Hotel Accommodation

Debate between Mark Sewards and Angela Eagle

Wednesday 20th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Dame Angela Eagle]

Our manifesto commitment was not to close all asylum hotels within four months of being elected.

[Mr Mark Sewards (Leeds South West and Morley) (Lab)]

It is truly astonishing to hear the Conservatives come here today to defend their Rwanda policy—£700 million spent on four deportees, or £175 million each. They could have purchased a five-star hotel for each of them. Surely the Minister agrees that the money is far better spent on intelligence, enforcement and, of course, processing, to get the backlog that we inherited down.

[Dame Angela Eagle]

I certainly do agree.