Plans have been dropped
The Home Office has dropped plans to use the Pontins Southport resort in as a base for people awaiting asylum decisions, LancsLive can reveal.
The Home Office has come under increasing pressure to find alternative arrangements to using hotels as it deals with huge backlogs in making decisions. Part of that delay has been caused by increased numbers of people arriving in the UK but that has only added to long delays which already existed in the system. According to the refugee council, government figures show that the asylum backlog has quadrupled in the last five years – in December 2017 it stood at 29,522.
The talks are not understood to have involved Sefton Council or local MP Damien Moore who has previously spoken out against the idea. Similar issues with a lack of local consultation sparked anger when hotels in Leyland, Chorley, and Morecambe were closed to the public to house asylum seekers last year.
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