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Howard deplores Home office decision on reporting centre

Michael Howard MP for Folkestone and Hythe has written to Home Office Minister, Beverley Hughes, deploring the decision of the Home Office to override Shepway District Council’s objection to the change of use of the Old Folkestone Police Station to a Reporting Centre for asylum seekers.

Mr Howard has asked the Minister a series of questions about the process by which this decision was reached and the way in which the Reporting Centre is intended to operate.

Mr Howard said “I have consistently opposed the proposal to change the use of the Old Folkestone Police Station to a Reporting Centre for asylum seekers. Folkestone has already discharged more than its fair burden of the consequences of the Government’s failure to implement a sensible policy in relation to asylum seekers. I see no justification for this most recent Home Office Decision.”

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