Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

(asked on 31st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2022 to Question 107455 on Undocumented Migrants: English Channel, what the maximum capacity is for housing migrants at the barracks at (a) Napier, (b) Penally and (c) Manston.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 7th February 2022

Napier capacity is kept under review; currently the capacity is set at 308.

Penally is closed but could accommodate a Covid safe capacity of 234 when operational.

Manston consists of a variety of different accommodation facilities. These will be managed dynamically depending on numbers of arrivals, the makeup of those arrivals and the availability of onward accommodation.

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