Free bus travel for asylum seekers unlikely despite plea from local MP View Image

Free bus travel in the West of England region for asylum seekers is unlikely despite a recent plea from a local MP. Asylum seekers living in Bristol hotels are given £9.95 a week while being banned from working and forced to travel to an immigration reporting centre in Patchway.

Last month Carla Denyer, the Green MP for Bristol Central, said asylum seekers should be given free bus passes . In a letter to Helen Godwin, the Labour mayor of the West of England, the MP said half of their weekly allowance was spent on just one day of bus travel.

But due to a lack of cash this is unlikely to go ahead. In a written answer to a public question ahead of the West of England Combined Authority meeting on Frid

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