Hotel to stop housing asylum seekers, MP says

Asylum seekers will no longer be housed at a hotel in Cheshire, an MP said.

Connor Naismith, the MP for Crewe and Nantwich, said the Crewe Arms Hotel opposite the town's railway station would stop being used by people in the asylum system from the end of April.

All residents would be relocated to alternative, suitable sites and, where possible, to "more appropriate dispersed accommodation", the Labour representative added.

The Home Office confirmed the hotel's contract to house asylum seekers would come to an end in April.

A message on the hotel's website says it will reopen on 20 April, with bookings being taken from that date forwards. It has been contacted for further comment.

Naismith said he previously wrote to ministers asking that asylum hotels in Crewe were closed "as a matter of urgency".

A Home Office spokesperson said: "Work is well under way to close every asylum hotel, with more suitable sites being brought forward to ease pressure on communities and cut asylum costs."

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