Both RAF Wethersfield and RAF Scampton were among sites identified for housing hundreds of asylum seekers each under the previous Tory government.
Labour will end the use of large military sites to house asylum seekers and will instead 'scatter' migrants around the country, it has emerged.
According to The Times, this will include empty homes or former student blocks that have self-catering facilities. A court was last month told how asylum seekers at the 'prison-like' former RAF base experienced scabies outbreaks. Prior to the general election, Sir Keir Starmer vowed Labour would act 'straight away' to begin the site's closure if it won power.
It is reported that councils have been asked to agree to asylum accommodation plans between local authorities and central government, which would set targets to increase dispersed accommodation.'Otherwise you have these areas that have concentrated numbers and that is what we got in areas with hotels and large sites.
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