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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Billions have been wasted on unfit accommodation that suits neither the migrants who shelter there nor the communities enraged by their presence. It is imperative that the government take decisive steps and build an alternative – now

The plans will see men housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex.

Men to be housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex will be the first of up to 10,000 migrants who the Home Office want to place at military sites

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It comes as a report published on Monday said that billions of pounds had been ‘squandered’ on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement.

Minister says plans to move away from using migrant hotels will be announced ‘within weeks’

Steve Reed said the Government was looking at ‘modular’ forms of building to ensure sites could go up quickly.

Political parties in Northern Ireland have criticised the plan to introduce mandatory digital ID for workers

Home Office oversight over asylum accommodation is chaotic and incompetent, causing costs to spiral, influential group of MPs warns

Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding

The Home Office has repeatedly cut corners and wasted taxpayers’ money in its ‘chaotic’ response to asylum accommodation pressures, MPs warned.