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Article: London is [pound]27m in the red over asylum seekers.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2001
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Byline: DAVID TAYLOR
LONDON councils spent [pound]27million more in a single year than they can claim back for housing asylum seekers, it is revealed today.
Families have been kept in London hotels at a cost of more than [pound]1,000 a week- four times over the government-set limit - as the system for housing asylum seekers was reduced to chaos.
The problem for the boroughs was that the Government's threshhold for reimbursing councils is fixed at just [pound]140 a week for adults and [pound]240 a week for families.
Councils faced with an accommodation crisis often found themselves paying much higher bills to private landlords, bed and ...