Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who chairs the committee, said: “Northeye was one of a series of failed Home Office acquisitions for large asylum accommodation sites, totalling a cost to the public purse of almost a hundred million pounds of taxpayers’ money.
“As part of our overall effort to cut the astronomical cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of asylum hotels, we have surged the number of returns, removing more than 16,400 people with no right to be in the UK, restarted asylum processing, established the new Border Security Command, and prioritised the acquisition of more sustainable dispersal accommodation.”.
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It is deeply frustrating that advice was offered to the Home Office, from expert property teams from other parts of Government, on the Northeye acquisition that the Home Office chose not to use.".
The contents of this report relate to the previous government’s purchase of the Northeye site for asylum accommodation, but we have decided against progressing the site to ensure value for money for the taxpayer.
