PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(14 November 2024)

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.

Asked by:
Mr James Cleverly (Conservative)

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 taxpayer over the next ten years and are delivering a major uplift in returns to remove people with no right to be in the UK.

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1 January 1970