Government Plan to Move Asylum Seekers from Hotels

Episode: (Another) Plan to Close Migrant Hotels Date: 28 Oct 2025 • Length: 34 mins

Summary: The government is weighing plans to move hundreds of asylum seekers out of hotels and into military sites as it pursues a pledge to stop using commercial hotels by 2029. Ministers are reportedly considering placing about 900 men at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and at the Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex. Around 32,000 asylum seekers are currently being housed in hotels across the UK. Adam Fleming and Chris Gray discuss whether the proposals will help deliver the government’s target and the practical and political implications of moving people into military accommodation.

International report — Sudan: The programme also covers a worrying new phase in Sudan’s civil war, with fears of mass killings after a significant turning point in the conflict. More than 150,000 people have died and roughly 14 million have been forced from their homes. Adam Fleming is joined by Lyse Doucet, BBC chief international correspondent, and Kholood Khair, a Sudanese political analyst and director of the Khartoum think tank Confluence Advisory, to explain the human and regional consequences.

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Credits: Presenter: Adam Fleming. Produced by Jack Maclaren with Lucy Gape. Social producer: Joe Wilkinson. Technical producer: Mike Regaard. Assistant editor: Chris Gray. Senior news editor: Sam Bonham.