{"id":41741,"date":"2022-02-15T19:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/feb\/15\/thousands-of-afghans-stuck-in-uk-hotels-as-resettlement-plan-stalls"},"modified":"2022-02-15T19:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:44:41","slug":"thousands-of-afghans-stuck-in-uk-hotels-as-resettlement-plan-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41741","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Afghans stuck in UK hotels as resettlement plan stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister admits there is no way to move some refugees on without losing government support<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/feb\/15\/does-not-seem-possible-londoner-who-wants-house-afghan-refugee\">\u2018Doesn\u2019t seem possible\u2019: Londoner who wants to house Afghan refugees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thousands of Afghans rescued from the Taliban remain stuck in UK hotels, after a minister admitted there was no mechanism to move some of them on without losing government support.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/government-spending-47m-hotels-asylum-seekers-home-refugees\">revealed<\/a> that keeping Afghans in hotels was costing the taxpayer \u00a31.2m a day. Hotel rooms are not suitable for long-term accommodation for traumatised people who have fled persecution, and prove a particularly challenging environment for families with children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/feb\/15\/thousands-of-afghans-stuck-in-uk-hotels-as-resettlement-plan-stalls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister admits there is no way to move some refugees on without losing government support\u2018Doesn\u2019t seem possible\u2019: Londoner who wants to house Afghan refugeesThousands of Afghans rescued from the Taliban remain stuck in UK hotels, after a minister admi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1440,717,4,494,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-home-office","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41741\/revisions\/41742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}