The north-south divide in the UK's asylum system - BBC Newsnight
December 18, 2018
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as posted by the channelMore asylum seekers are housed on the government’s dispersal scheme in Stoke than the entire South East of England (excluding London).
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The Home Affairs Select Committee has called on the UK government to "urgently reconsider the operation of the dispersal policy".
Originally this policy was about sharing the burden, but over time it has turned into something else.
Newsnight's James Clayton reports from Stoke.
Conservative Councillor David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association’s Asylum, Refugee and Migration Task Group and Rachel Mantell from the charity Refugees at Home join us in the studio.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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