Migrants housed in hotels are criticising schools' Ofsted ratings, Tory MP suggests

Migrants housed in hotels are criticising the Ofsted ratings of local schools recommended for their children, a Tory MP has suggested.

The claims were made by Jonathan Gullis, the Conservative MP, who told LBC: "We have got this deal with Rwanda in place, it would be good to enact it.

"We have got people in hotels in places like Stoke on Trent who council officials are telling me are studying their PhD at Queen Mary's University and when they were told which school their children were going to go to complained about that school's Ofsted rating.

"These are not people coming over here fleeing war, these are economic migrants who are taking advantage of our system and we need to enforce it."

Mr Gullis on Wednesday failed to introduce a Bill in the Commons calling for new legislation allowing Parliament to disregard the European Court of Human Rights' ruling on deporting migrants to Rwanda.

It came a day after Rishi Sunak announced that hotels would no longer be used to house asylum seekers as part of his new plan to tackle illegal immigration.

Instead of dispersing migrants to hotels, at a cost of £5.5 million a day, they will be sent to disused holiday camps, student accommodation and surplus military sites.

Last month, it emerged that several councils were taking legal action against the Home Office after hotels were block-booked for migrants who arrived in small boats across the Channel.

'Very real concerns about the impact on services'

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has previously objected to the Home Office using a prominent hotel to house asylum seekers.

Abi Brown,the council leader, said previously: "We have very real concerns about the impact on services, on communities and on our ability to be able to give the right support to vulnerable people at a time of such major upheaval and crisis in their lives.

"Asking our city to support potentially many more asylum seekers in this way is not fair on anyone."

A Government spokesman said: "The global migration crisis is causing an unprecedented strain on our asylum system.

"Nobody should put their lives at risk by taking dangerous and illegal journeys. We will go further and faster to tackle those gaming the system, using every tool at our disposal to deter illegal migration, disrupt the business model of people smugglers and relocate to Rwanda those with no right to be in the UK."

Queen Mary University was approached for comment.