A Home Office review on the decision to use the Holiday Inn Express at Manvers as an ‘asylum hotel’ has been secured by a Sheffield MP.
John Healey, the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, said he will make a formal submission to Robert Jenrick as part of this review,
He said: “I will again set out our local concerns about Manvers being utterly unsuited for such accommodation and our wish to see our hotel being released back for ordinary paying customers.”
This followed the events of last week, where the hotel was the site of outcry regarding the asylum seekers.
Anti-immigration protesters were met with resistance from hundreds of activists outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on 18 February.
Demonstrators from Stand up to Racism, Unite Against Fascism and Sheffield Trade Council turned up to oppose far-right organisations, Patriotic Alternative and English Constitution Party, which gathered outside the hotel currently homing more than 100 asylum seekers.
During this demonstration, young children inside the hotel were seen waving at the crowds and holding up posters with ‘Thank you’ written on them.
Robert Jenrick MP, the Minister of State for Immigration, has confirmed the Home Office review will be taken in April.
Mr Jenrick said: “We are continuing to increase the number of asylum decision makers, whilst improving
productivity, volumes and speed of decision making so that people spend less time in
asylum accommodation.”
