Home Office abandons plans for camp at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre

Temporary accommodation will not now be used as additional capacity' to house asylum seekers at the site

The Home Office has abandoned controversial plans to house nearly 200 asylum seekers in what campaigners have described as a prison-style" camp on the site of an immigration removal centre.

Government officials originally planned to move the asylum seekers into portable buildings adjacent to Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire at the end of last year. Tents were to be erected to use for preparing and serving food. But in a significant U-turn, the Home Office is no longer proceeding with the plans.