Tory MPs say they will continue naming asylum hotels

Some Tory MPs person vowed not to beryllium "silenced", aft a exile foundation called for politicians to halt naming hotels lodging radical seeking asylum.

The Refugee Council has written to the Commons Speaker urging him to inquire MPs not to place hotels to support the information of those staying there.

But respective Tories said they would inactive "name and shame" hotels getting payer wealth to location migrants.

The UK spends astir £7m a time connected hotels for asylum seekers and refugees.

In the Refugee Council letter, first reported by the Guardian, the charity's main enforcement Enver Soloman said the "horrific" incidental highlighted however asylum seekers were susceptible to convulsive attacks by extremists.

"It has been Home Office signifier to not publically sanction hotels wherever radical are staying successful bid to defender their information and privacy, but we cognize that progressively MPs are naming circumstantial premises erstwhile they rise this issue," helium wrote.

"It is of people close that MPs should beryllium capable to rise immoderate constituency contented successful Parliament, but this tin beryllium done without identifying a circumstantial edifice and perchance making it much susceptible to attack."

Campaign radical Hope Not Hate said it had recorded 182 visits from anti-immigration activists to migrant accommodation sites truthful acold this year, immoderate of which progressive asylum seekers and information unit being harassed and filmed.

However, Tory MP Lee Anderson, who represents Ashfield, wrote connected Facebook: "Like galore of you, I americium sick and bushed of seeing our hospitality abused and radical who are simply economical migrants cheating our strategy via tiny boats and dodgy quality rights legislation.

"I volition not beryllium silenced and volition sanction and shame these greedy edifice owners."

Brendan Clarke-Smith, Tory MP for Bassetlaw, said helium would ever beryllium "welcoming to those successful genuine need" but posted a akin message, saying: "I volition not beryllium silenced and volition usage the privileges fixed to maine arsenic a Member of Parliament to proceed to talk retired connected this issue."

Former Conservative curate David Davis has besides raised concerns astir plans to location asylum seekers astatine a circumstantial edifice successful his constituency of Haltemprice and Howden, arsenic good arsenic different which is already being utilized for the purpose.

In effect to the Refugee Council letter, helium told the BBC: "In astir cases, and successful astir constituencies, the lodging arrangements of migrants are hardly a secret.

"It is usually the lawsuit that hotels, oregon different facilities, lodging migrants oregon asylum seekers [are] good known truthful I cannot spot immoderate spot successful calls to restrict the state of code of Members of Parliament successful this matter."

He added: "It is peculiarly important for MPs to talk retired astir the lodging of migrants successful their constituency erstwhile it straight relates to the proviso of services connected which our constituents and the migrants trust specified arsenic healthcare and education."

A spokeswoman for Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle declined to comment.

The authorities is nether unit to tackle the expanding fig of radical crossing the Channel successful tiny boats.

There is simply a increasing backlog asylum claims successful the UK, with thousands of asylum seekers staying successful Home Office-funded accommodation portion they hold for a determination connected their case.