Ministers want military sites or decommissioned ferries to host asylum seekers instead of hotels.
The government may house newly arrived migrants on military sites or unused ferries within weeks to clear hotels.
Ministers have already signaled their intention to terminate the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.
Previous suggestions to utilize summer programs and student dormitories are less likely to be implemented.
It comes as Tory lawmakers prepare a rebellion next week against Rishi Sunak’s illegal immigration bill.
Several senior Tories and former ministers have signed an amendment that would strip the European Court of Human Rights of any involvement in the United Kingdom’s process for handling illegal immigration.
Danny Kruger, the former political secretary to Boris Johnson, proposed the amendment, which is endorsed by several members of parliament, including Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Sir John Redwood, and Simon Clarke.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Commons will scrutinize the prime minister’s legislation. And there are reports that he will confer with potential rebels in the coming days.
According to government sources, an announcement regarding hotel accommodations is anticipated within weeks.
The news comes after locals, politicians, and historians opposed housing asylum seekers at a Lincolnshire Royal Air Force site.
Approximately 1,500 asylum claimants could be accommodated at the defunct RAF Scampton.
The airfield, which closed last year, was once home to The Red Arrows aerobatic display team and the Dambusters. The squadron responsible for one of the most famous air raids of the Second World War.
The proposal could result in the cancellation of a £300 million plan to convert the base into a historic site.
The COVID-19 pandemic made housing asylum seekers in army camps a “serious error in judgement.
In the April 2021 report, chief inspector David Bolt stated that conditions at Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, and Penally Camp in Wales were “completely unacceptable” and represented “serious failures” on the part of the Home Office.
Liz Saville Roberts MP, leader of Plaid Cymru Westminster and spokesperson for home affairs, responded to Saturday’s announcement by stating that the government had “learned nothing from their failures.”
Inspectors described the Penally barracks in Pembrokeshire as “poverty-stricken, dilapidated, and unfit.”
“Penally was mercifully shut down, and residents were relocated to more suitable housing.”
Reports of imminent plans to relocate asylum claimants to army bases demonstrate, once again, that the Conservative government is motivated by cruelty rather than policy outcomes.
