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A view of HMP Northeye in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, which the Home Office bought for £15 million
THE HOME OFFICE failed to rule out housing asylum-seekers in an asbestos-filled former prison today after the government’s spending watchdog blasted the Tories for wasting £15 million on it.
Tory ministers Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden “cut corners” and made “poor decisions” when they paid for the Northeye site in East Sussex, a damning National Audit Office (NAO) report said.
The “rushed and misjudged” decision was made despite the “technical due diligence and approvals process not having been undertaken.”
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