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Home Office 'cut corners' buying asbestos-contaminated £15m migrant camp

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Home Office paid 15 m for Northeye site in East Sussex , purchased in 2023 under Conservative government.

Report found "corners [were] cut" so the site could be acquired at speed to house asylum seekers.

Home Office said it remained committed to ending the use of hotels and achieving better value for the taxpayer.

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English

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