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‘Run-down, isolated and bleak’: MPs demand immediate closure of Napier Barracks after visiting site
A view of Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, which is currently being used by the government to house people seeking asylum in the UK
A GROUP of MPs has called for the immediate and permanent closure of Napier Barracks after finding that asylum-seekers are still living in “run-down, isolated and bleak” conditions at the site.
The report by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on immigration detention, released yesterday, follows a visit by MPs to the ex-army barracks in Folkestone, Kent, in February.
MPs said their visit confirmed that asylum-seekers being accommodated there continued to live in “run-down, isolated and bleak” buildings, in shared dorms of up to 12 to 14 people with a near total lack of privacy.
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