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REFUGEES COME TO BRITAIN SEEKING SAFETY, NOT OVERCROWDED HOTELS




Rosemary Sales highlights the reality of the hotel accommodation offered to
asylum seekers. Plus letters from Catherine Roome and Ruth Valentine

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Congratulations to Diane Taylor for challenging the justice secretary’s claim
that accommodation in hotels is a pull factor encouraging asylum seekers to come
to the UK (Dominic Raab is wrong: refugees do not come to the UK for the hotels,
29 March). The image promoted by talk of “Hotel Britain” is of people enjoying a
holiday in pleasant surroundings. The reality is very different.

At our advice service, we are seeing increasing numbers of asylum seekers who
have been placed in hotels. They are often in severely overcrowded conditions,
sometimes sharing a room with strangers, provided with poor and inadequate food,
and only £8 a week to spend on necessities, with no support to help them access
services such as GPs.


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Far from being a pull factor, hotel accommodation, as with other aspects of the
hostile environment, is aimed at deterring people from coming to the UK. Only
those desperate to find safety would come here to face these conditions.
Rosemary Sales
Trustee, Hackney Migrant Centre, London

When I watched the first episode of the BBC’s Great Expectations, I idly
wondered how long it would be before this Tory government suggested using ships
to house immigrants like the prison hulk depicted therein (Home Office planning
to house asylum seekers on disused cruise ships, 28 March).
Catherine Roome
Staplehurst, Kent

The Home Office has a short memory. In 1987, 120 refugees, 60 of them Sri Lankan
Tamils, were detained on a passenger liner, the Earl William, in the Thames –
until the great storm of 15 October dislodged it. Ships may not be as secure as
Braverman believes.
Ruth Valentine
London

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