"Yes, we do also want to see alternative sites, more appropriate sites, including looking at military and industrial sites as well. But the core of it has to be clearing the numbers out of the system and preventing as many people getting into the system in the first place."
"Well, we're looking with other government departments and looking with the local councils at what some more appropriate sites might be, and certainly more appropriate than asylum hotels. We have managed to cut the bill for these costly asylum hotels by nearly a billion pounds this year."
"That's one of the things that's been looked at. But we will provide updates when we've got the practical plans. What I'm not going to do, I'm doing the opposite, basically, of what the previous government did, because they used to just announce a whole load of things and then not actually deliver any of them. And I think that undermined trust."
The government is considering using industrial and military sites, including warehouses, to house asylum seekers as an alternative to costly asylum hotels. Asylum hotels cost about £5.7 million per day (£171 million per month) for roughly 32,000 migrants, with numbers increasing. Potential alternative accommodations include empty tower blocks, former care homes, student accommodation, flats, houses and military sites. Ministers are coordinating with other government departments and local councils to identify more appropriate sites, aim to clear numbers from the system, prevent further arrivals, and have reduced hotel spending by nearly £1 billion this year while promising practical plans and updates.
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