Rejected petition Stop hotels being used to house asylum seekers in Ilfracombe.

Rejected on 30 January 2023

Not allocate more hotels within Ilfracombe for temporary housing of asylum seekers

Ilfracombe is a small coastal town whose economy is dependent on tourism. Allocating further accommodation used by tourists throughout the year to asylum seekers will have a disastrous effect on the local economy and therefore local jobs.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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We can't accept petitions about accommodation of asylum seekers in particular areas, as this is an operational matter, not a decision for the Government or House of Commons, but we have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Stop housing asylum seekers who entered the UK illegally in hotels: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628324

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.