Government pays £15.3m for derelict land that sold for £6.3m a year ago

Brownfield site in Bexhill, East Sussex, being considered as a potential detention centre to house asylum seekers

The government paid 15.3m for a derelict piece of land last month that was sold just over a year ago for 6.3m, it has emerged.

The brownfield site in Bexhill in East Sussex was previously used for Northeye prison and then for a training centre for students from the United Arab Emirates.