An army training camp in East Sussex is set to be the next military site to house asylum seekers under Home Office plans to end the use of hotels by 2029, The i Paper understands.

The Home Office is understood to have earmarked Crowborough Training Camp as a site to hold people who have crossed the Channel on small boats in the next few weeks.

The camp is owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and is used by army cadets from across the country. New Feature

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It comes after a damning cross-party report found billions of pounds had been “squandered” on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement.

Expected costs of accommodation contracts for 2019-2029 tripled from £4.5 billion to £15.3 billion after a “dramatic increase” in dema

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