Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the risk of the migrants on the barge in Portland Port being forced into (a) modern slavery, (b) drug activity and (c) other crimes.

A specialist and experienced security provider will be working to ensure the site is run in an orderly manner with limited impact on the local community.

We are also working closely with local police forces to ensure appropriate security arrangements are in place.

Upon arrival, all asylum claimants are subject to mandatory security checks to confirm their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to the delivery of a safe and secure immigration system.

The safety and security of the local communities, asylum seekers on site and staff are of the utmost importance to the Home Office.