Charities criticise ‘costly’ Home Office plan to use more military bases to house asylum seekers - UK politics live

Government seeking planning permission at sites in Bicester in Oxfordshire, Barnham in Suffolk, and Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire The move has been condemned for costing more than placing claimants in hotels and repeating the mistakes of the last government, which faced legal challenges over the use of barracks to house asylum seekers. Imran Hussain, director of external affairs at the Refugee Council, said: As the government’s own spending watchdog has said, barracks actually cost more money overall than hotels . We know from experience they also isolate people from local communities and

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