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Scottish First Minister John Swinney joins call for pause on new asylum arrivals in Glasgow
Glasgow council faces a £66 million financial shortfall and rising homelessness, prompting calls to halt new asylum seeker relocations amid increasing community tensions.
- Amid rising tensions, John Swinney told Sky News: `What the Home Office has got to with Glasgow is respond to their call for there to be more time given to enable the judgements around homelessness to be put in place`, supporting a Glasgow pause request.
- Data show Glasgow houses over 90% of Scotland's asylum seekers due to its long-standing policy of helping people fleeing persecution, while Scottish rules let refugees with leave to remain apply for homeless assistance across councils, increasing pressure on Glasgow.
- Receiving 7,500 homeless applications from outside the city, Glasgow City Council chiefs say UK Government efforts to empty asylum seeker hotels have created a refugee homeless crisis.
- John Swinney defended Scotland's homelessness approach as the right one and attributed Glasgow's crisis to the Home Office, denying his government was partly to blame.
- For every 10,000 people, Glasgow is housing 58 asylum seekers, while Edinburgh houses three, and Swinney says returning 65 MSPs next year would mandate indyref2, raising political stakes.
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Scottish First Minister John Swinney joins call for pause on new asylum arrivals in Glasgow
Cliff Notes Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney supports a pause on new asylum seekers to Glasgow, as the city struggles with overwhelming demands on housing and healthcare services. Glasgow, facing community tensions and a £66 million funding shortfall, leads in the UK for housed asylum seekers at 59 per 10,000 inhabitants. Swinney attributes the crisis [...]
Scottish First Minister John Swinney Joins Call For Pause On New Asylum Arrivals In Glasgow - Great Yorkshire Radio
The city is the frontline of the UK’s immigration system, with more arrivals than anywhere else. Latest UK-wide figures show Glasgow was the local authority with the highest proportion of housed asylum seekers at 59 per 10,000 inhabitants (a total of 3,716). The UK Home Office is mass-processing asylum claims in order to try and clear a backlog built up over years. Once an asylum seeker is given the right to stay in the UK, they become a refugee…
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