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By Press Association 2021 Penally Camp in Wales (ICIBI/HMIP/PA) Home Secretary Priti Patel and her department faced repeated criticism from professionals, inspectors and campaigners over the decision to house asylum seekers in a former Army barracks. The Home Office decided in September to use Napier Barracks in Kent and Penally Camp in Wales amid a shortfall of accommodation during the coronavirus pandemic. This prompted concerns from campaigners and health professionals over the conditions in the former military bases, leading to petitions to shut the sites down. Shortly after, a Covid-19 outbreak was confirmed at Napier. Despite this, Ms Patel and immigration minister Chris Philp continued to defend the use of such sites. ....
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It was a “serious error of judgment” to think that military barracks could be suitable to house asylum seekers, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has said. Cross-party members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to say they “entirely agree” with these concerns aired by Independent Chief Inspector David Bolt, whom they met last month. They branded the conditions at Napier Barracks in Kent and Penally Camp in Wales, where almost 200 people tested positive for coronavirus during an outbreak in January and February, as “utterly unacceptable”. Both sites have been used to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers since September, despite Public Health England warning the Home Office that it was unsuitable. ....