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Labour calls for investigation into sexual exploitation reports in asylum seeker hotels
Protesters outside the Crowne Plaza London Heathrow hotel in West Drayton, London, which is being used as accommodation for asylum seekers
LABOUR called for an investigation today into allegations of intimidation and sexual harassment against asylum-seekers in a network of privately run hotels contracted by the Home Office.
The government accommodates about 9,500 asylum seekers in re-purposed hotels and apartment blocks across the country – sometime for years – while they wait for their claims to be processed.
Private firms such as Clearsprings Ready Homes are hired to run them.
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