Matthew Rycroft, the Home Office perm sec, disclosed that housing migrants on the Bibby Stockholm is £20 cheaper per night than hotels, not including the £22 million operational cost. Following an FOI request, it was found that Dyfed Powys Police spent over £1 million on policing the Stradey Park Hotel protests against housing migrants, which began in July and led to an October U-turn by the Home Office with no migrants moved in, revealing the TRUE cost of the protests. In NYC, emergency contracts worth $137 million were signed to house migrants in eight hotels in Brooklyn and Queens.
How many hotel rooms will be used to house migrants, at this point? This is such a bizarre situation. ========================== Another series of emergency hotel deals has been signed — with a total $137 million price tag — to house migrants. Eight hotels in Brooklyn, Queens,… https://t.co/HOYp1zVUDK
NYC inks another set of emergency hotel contracts to house migrants — at $137M price tag https://t.co/9cB6nsgO9L https://t.co/gD2kZfFR6y
The protests outside Stradey Park Hotel against asylum seeker plans cost the police more than £1m https://t.co/f7iy9VEiaF
Asylum hotel protests cost police £1m https://t.co/io6Gr4lxbN
I believe this is the first time we've seen the *TRUE* cost of policing a hotel protest in the UK. July: Plans to house migrants announced at Stradey Park + beginning of protests. October: U-turn by Home Office. No migrants moved in. Millions spent + Community teared apart. https://t.co/DhEVi5Z0OW
A police force spent more than £1m dealing with protests outside a hotel https://t.co/TSPQRrD2AX
NEW: Following an FOI request I sent to Dyfed Powys Police, I've found out that they spent more than *£1 mil* policing the anti-migrant hotel protest at the Stradey Prk Hotel. That's on top of the millions spent on the plan by the UK Govt. No migrants were moved into the hotel.
Stradey Park: Asylum hotel protests cost police £1m https://t.co/gigh89SxvU
Home Office perm sec Matthew Rycroft reveals housing migrants on the Bibby Stockholm is £20 cheaper per night than hotels. Obviously excluding the £22million operational cost of securing the barge so far... https://t.co/BJuLtuaOA9