{"id":554589,"date":"2026-04-28T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:30:09","slug":"what-impact-does-immigration-have-on-housing-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554589\/","title":{"rendered":"What impact does immigration have on housing in Scotland?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A simple summary of where the main parties stand on immigration, and other key campaign issues, has been produced by BBC Scotland. <\/p>\n

The guide<\/a> is based on the promises that parties have made during the campaign.<\/p>\n

The SNP want the UK government to deliver a Scottish visa scheme and devolve migration policy to a tailored system that addresses Scotland’s workforce needs.<\/p>\n

The Scottish Greens also want the UK government to devolve immigration to the Scottish Parliament, and they want to fund councils and registered social landlords to supply asylum housing to end the routine use of hotels and barracks.<\/p>\n

The Scottish Conservatives say that no-one who has entered the UK illegally should be allowed to claim asylum, and they plan to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and close all asylum hotels.<\/p>\n

Scottish Labour want to see a managed and controlled migration system which ensures Scotland gets the skills and talent it needs, and keeps borders secure across the UK.<\/p>\n

The Scottish Liberal Democrats plan to declare the backlog of asylum claims a national emergency, and employ 2,000 more caseworkers to help clear the backlog and close asylum hotels.<\/p>\n

Reform UK want to see the removal of immigrants who enter Scotland illegally and break the law, and to scrap Glasgow’s status as Scotland’s main dispersal city for successful asylum seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A simple summary of where the main parties stand on immigration, and other key campaign issues, has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}