Asylum: Housing

(asked on 24th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether sites in his Department's estate were considered alongside RAF Linton-on-Ouse for use as an asylum accommodation site.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 1st June 2022

In response to a request from the Home Office to examine whether Defence sites could be utilised to provide additional asylum accommodation capacity, the MOD undertook a review of the Defence estate to identify potential options. In order to minimise the operational impact to Defence, this review focused on transit and training sites and those sites due to be disposed of in the coming years, which included RAF Linton-on-Ouse. A number of other sites were considered and discounted.

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