A hotel in the Black Country that is being used to house asylum seekers is set to close, the Home Office has confirmed.
On Thursday (June 25), the Home Office said that 20 hotels that were being used to house asylum seekers would close as part of the Labour Party's pledge to stop using asylum hotels by the next election.
This includes the Dayz Away Lodge in Dudley.
Border security and asylum minister Alex Norris said: "We promised to close every asylum hotel and hand them back to communities, and that is exactly what we are doing.
"Twenty more hotels have closed, and hotel numbers have more than halved since their peak.
"Instead, we’re moving asylum seekers into ex-military sites that are a far cry from the hotels the last Government left us with.
"This is a system being brought back under control – and we will not stop until the job is done."
The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels has fallen to its lowest level since data was first reported in 2022, according to Home Office figures published last month.
There were 20,885 people staying in such accommodation while they were awaiting a decision on their asylum claims at the end of March, down 35 per cent year-on-year from 32,326.
The total had climbed as high as 56,018 at the end of September 2023.
The issue of people being housed in hotels came to the fore last year with protests outside some sites.
The closure of the hotels, including the hotel in Dudley, also comes as the Home Office plans to use more former military barracks to house thousands of asylum seekers.
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