![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sources said the reopening of the two additional detention centres is now delayed until early next year. Prisons cannot be used because they are already full, with inmates being kept in police station cells under an emergency scheme. Once its measures are in place, 'irregular' migrants such as small boat arrivals will be detained rather than placed in controversial and costly hotel accommodation.īut the Home Office will need a major expansion of detention capacity if Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to remove Channel migrants is to be met. The Bill is due to face strong opposition in the House of Lords in the coming weeks but ministers still hope it will gain Royal Assent by the time Parliament's summer recess begins in July. They will hold an extra 1,000 detainees in total. Under the £450million, six-year contracts the centres were both due to be up and running by August. Government tenders to run disused centres Campfield House, near Oxford, and Haslar, at Gosport, Hampshire, closed in January. More than 6,500 small boat migrants have reached the UK this year so farĪmong last year's 45,700 total, 8,600 reached UK shores during August alone and the highest daily total was almost 1,300. ![]()
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