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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Matt Watts and Nicholas Cecil

Housing asylum seekers in army barracks may cost more than migrant hotels, admits defence minister

Hundreds of asylum seekers are to be moved to military sites as the Government aims to end the use of hotels to house small boat migrants.

However, defence minister Luke Pollard admitted that using military sites could cost the taxpayer more than asylum hotels.

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