Government appeal in asylum hotel case

THE Home Office will seek to appeal against the High Court's refusal to allow it to intervene in the case of a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Epping, the security minister has said.

- 

Dan Jarvis said the Government would appeal against the decision, which if successful would open the way for a wider appeal against a temporary injunction blocking the Home Office from using the Bell Hotel as asylum accommodation.

He said: "This Government will close all asylum hotels and we will clear up the mess that we inherited from the previous government. We've made a commitment that we will close all of the asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament, but we need to do that in a managed and ordered way. And that’s why we'll appeal this decision."