Temporary accommodation at Yarl’s Wood removal centre will not be used after criticism
The Home Office has abandoned controversial plans to house nearly 200 asylum seekers in what campaigners have described as a “prison-style” camp on the site of an immigration removal centre.
Government officials originally planned to move the asylum seekers into portable buildings adjacent to Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire at the end of last year. Tents were to be erected to use for preparing and serving food. But in a significant U-turn, the Home Office is no longer proceeding with the plans.
