PM Rishi Sunak on Biden's upcoming visit to Northern Ireland, 'I was pleased that we were able to agree on the new Windsor Framework to restore balance and protect Northern Ireland's place in our union,' says Sunak. 📺 Sky 501/ YouTube
What has Rishi Sunak announced so far in his plan to tackle small boat crossings?The vessel, called Bibby Stockholm, will be home to 500 migrants while their asylum claims are processed.
“We are spending, as a country, £6 million a day housing illegal asylum seekers in hotels – that can’t be right. Dorset Council, which is run by the Conservative Party, has said that it has"serious reservations" about the plans to house asylum seekers on a barge at Portland Port. “There are a number of questions which the Home Secretary’s announcement does not address, we will continue to press the Home Office for answers and await further information.”The Bibby Stockholm that will house 500 single adult male migrants is currently moored in the Italian port city of Genoa, and the government plans for it to be operational in Dorset"in the coming months".
The 93 metre-long vessel is effectively a large block of flats on a floating platform, and it has been reported that it could cost around £20,000 per day. "We have to use alternative accommodation options, as our European neighbours are doing - including the use of barges and ferries to save the British taxpayer money and to prevent the UK becoming a magnet for asylum shoppers in Europe."
However, Amnesty International UK's Steve Valdez-Symonds has condemned the plans as"ministerial cruelty", and described the announcement as"political theatre".Polling day looms in this year's local electionsThis chart shows the local authorities where people will be casting ballots: The government's plan is designed to bring in the checks that the UK must implement under the Brexit trade agreement with the EU, but also reduce the amount of paperwork and checks required to make the process as smooth as possible.
An online"single trade window" will be designed so that businesses can submit information about goods through one digital system to all relevant UK agenciesThe government says its plans will reduce costs to businesses by £400m per year by slashing the complex paperwork requirements for importing goods.
It was an increase of £2.6bn from 2021 and dwarfs the £1.1bn spent on Africa, according to provisional Foreign Office figures. Kathleen Spencer Chapman, a director at the Plan International UK children's rights organisation, said:"We are deeply concerned that the government is using large chunks of an already reduced aid budget to pay for a domestic asylum system that is not fit for purpose.
"We urge the government to allocate funds directly and transparently to the UK asylum system, and to urgently refocus the aid budget on to those areas for which it was intended - chiefly tackling global poverty and the impacts of climate change, promoting gender equality and responding to humanitarian crises.
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