The Commons Speaker’s lawyers have warned about a potential “chilling effect” if a council seeking a legal challenge against the Home Office’s plans to house asylum seekers on airfields can use a Government minister’s parliamentary statement in its case.
At a hearing on Wednesday, West Lindsey District Council, Braintree District Council and a Wethersfield resident in Essex asked a judge to give them the go-ahead to have a full hearing in their claim against the department to stop plans to house asylum seekers on airfields in the two areas.
