More than a dozen MPs question use of hotels as Robert Jenrick says ‘some larger sites’ may be needed

Conservative MPs have expressed frustration at the government’s failure to ease pressure on the UK’s asylum system, as a Home Office minister pledged to stop placing people in hotels.

Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, said he wanted to house asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK on small boats in “some larger sites to provide decent but basic accommodation”, without naming specific sites.

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