The Home Office has vowed to persevere with proposals to build
accommodation centres in rural areas for asylum seekers even though
the proposals were rejected by the House of Lords. The plan is to
open three centres each holding 750 asylum seekers. From next April
there will be a list of 10 countries, all of which are due to enter
the European Union, from which asylum claims will be presumed to be
unfounded.
No u-turn on seekers’ centres
October 31, 2002 in Adults
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