Reports on Monday suggested that Home Office officials were considering paying asylum seekers £100 a week to leave hotels and live with family or friends, in an effort to meet Labour’s goal of ending asylum hotels by 2029 .

There were 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels at the end of June, up 8 per cent from a year ago.

“I’m not sure anyone would get that far with £100 in the UK. A more pragmatic approach would be to speed up the consideration of asylum claims,” Sarah Singer, a professor of refugee law at the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative, told The i Paper . New Feature

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In fact, she said schemes previously used in the US could also help to curb the number of migrants illegally crossing the Channel .

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