February 2, 2021 at 2:30 pm | Published in: Europe & Russia, News, UK
A migrants walks in Napier Barracks, a former military barracks being used to house asylum seekers in Folkestone, southeast England on 1 February 2021. [BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images] February 2, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Concerns are growing over the UK Home Office s decision to use barracks as accommodation for asylum seekers on the grounds that they are freezing cold, dirty and without drinking water and edible food.
Former Tory Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes has said that the Home Office is using the barracks to make England seem difficult and inhospitable.
In 2012, then home secretary Theresa May told the
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Meanwhile, almost a quarter of homes in Southampton, Itchen can’t access full-fibre broadband, However, more than four in five houses in Southampton, Test can. Figures from the House of Commons library showed 82.1% of households in Southampton, Test could receive speeds of one gigabit per second in September 2020. This makes it one of just a few dozen constituencies across the UK to have almost reached or already surpassed 85%, years ahead of the 2025 target. However, coverage differs greatly throughout the parliamentary constituency – from 98.5% of homes in Coxford and Lords Hill, to 61.9% in Regents Park and Millbrook East. In contrast just 76.3% of households in Southampton, Itchen could receive speeds of one gigabit per second in September 2020.