A total of 32,059 asylum seekers were being housed temporarily in UK hotels at the end of Labour's first year in government, Home Office data shows. This is down very slightly on 32,345 who were in British hotels at the end of March. However, today's figure is an 8% rise on the same point 12 months ago, just before Labour took office in July 2024. As a reminder, Labour has pledged to end the use of asylum hotels by 2029. In her Spending Review in June, Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged £200m to "cut the asylum backlog, hear more appeal cases and return people who have no right to be here". Read more on the Sky News website: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-starmer-labour-badenoch-small-boats-farage-12593360 #immigration #Migration #UKMigration SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https://podfollow.com/skynewsdaily/ To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https://news.sky.com/info/library-sales