Overview
- Senior Home Office officials visited Copenhagen last month to examine Denmark’s model, including tighter family‑reunion thresholds and mostly temporary refugee status.
- A leaked Home Office paper, reported by The Times, identifies at least 14 potential sites for up to 10,000 people and sketches stricter conditions such as higher English requirements, clean criminal records and possible repayments after asylum grants.
- The department says it will end the use of asylum hotels and accelerate moves to more suitable accommodation, including facilities on Ministry of Defence land.
- Plans under consideration, as reported, include steps to speed removals, curb pull factors, adjust how ECHR provisions are applied in domestic law, expand returns deals and test new age‑assessment technology.
- Labour MPs are split over adopting Danish‑style measures as Channel crossings rise, with 648 arrivals reported on Friday and the yearly total reaching about 38,223.