Hotel bills for Grenfell Tower survivors reach nearly £21 million in just eight months
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Hotel bills for Grenfell Tower survivors have hit £20.9million in eight months, figures reveal.
The sum is for rooms at 53 hotels up to February this year for evacuees from ­Grenfell and a neighbouring estate, according to Freedom of Information data.
The local council is likely to get half the cost back from the Government.
Another £8million has been paid out to residents who lost everything in the inferno that claimed 71 lives in West London last June.
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Local Labour MP for Kensington Emma Dent Coad said: “I spend a great deal of time visiting displaced families in hotels, and without exception they want permanent homes but are not being offered anything suitable.
“Their lives are not only on hold; for many this has lost them jobs and businesses, and destroyed their ability to work or study.”
According to Kensington and Chelsea council, of the 209 households needing new homes, 185 have accepted a temporary or permanent place and 126 have moved in.
This leaves 24 families or individuals still in hotels.