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The Home Office has announced that 13 hotels in England are no longer being used to house asylum seekers. They include the Grand Metropole Hotel, Blackpool.

For too long, communities have watched hotels at the centre of their towns and cities become symbols of a broken asylum system.

We are turning that around by ending the use of asylum hotels for good and moving people into larger, basic accommodation like former military sites.