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Stop housing asylum seekers in hotels and stop benefits to economic migrants

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

We ask the government to stop housing asylum seekers in hotels and to stop paying benefits to suspected economic migrants.
The refugee crisis is getting worse as more and more asylum seekers and economic migrants risk their lives to come to the UK. We ask the government to make coming to the UK less attractive by stopping benefits being payed to suspected economic migrants, we also ask that all asylum seekers be housed in basic accommodation instead of hotels as this costs the British tax payers millions of pounds per day.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Stop housing asylum seekers who entered the UK illegally in hotels: Stop housing asylum seekers who entered the UK illegally in hotels

Asylum seekers – i.e. persons waiting for a decision on an asylum application – are not entitled to mainstream social security benefits.

Timeline

19 Nov 2022 Petition opened for signatures
23 Nov 2022 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13
Status Rejected
Rejected 23 Nov 2022

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.