Written Question·Home Office·UIN 14328

Asylum: Bibby Stockholm and MOD Wethersfield

Tabled: 14 November 2024
Answered: 25 November 2024

Question

Sir James Cleverly

Conservative — Braintree

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she used to close the Bibby Stockholm; and whether she will apply those criteria to the Asylum Reception Centre at former RAF Wethersfield.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
We are determined to reduce asylum accommodation costs, which reached record levels under the previous government, and decisions on individual sites are made on a case by case basis with that objective in mind will save an estimated £7 billion for the tax...
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