The Home Office is to find new accommodation for a group of asylum seekers after ending
its contract with a hotel.
Single men seeking refuge have been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping Forest, Essex, for several years.
However, the government said the arrangement will cease by the end of April.
Dame Eleanor Laing, Conservative MP for Epping Forest, said she "welcomes this news".
"I am reassured that the people who are currently living at the Bell Hotel, who have been supported by local residents, in particular by church groups, will have their welfare needs taken care of when they move to a different place," she added.
The Home Office said using hotels as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers was a short-term measure.
In a letter sent to Dame Eleanor, Tom Pursglove, the minister for legal migration and the border, said: "Utilising hotels for asylum accommodation takes valuable assets away from communities, places pressures on local public services and imposes an unacceptable cost on the British taxpayer.
"Through the improvements we have made to our system, we are now able to begin the next phase of hotel exits and to stop the procurement of new asylum hotels."
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