In an updated statement, the Home Office said Wethersfield regular occupancy was now just under 800 but there were 445 contingency bed spaces “which can be brought into use to help manage short-term pressures across the wider asylum accommodation estate”.
“If called upon, the contingency bed spaces will only be utilised on a temporary basis until such time as the wider accommodation estate is able to manage demand, and the number accommodated at Wethersfield will be reduced back down to 800 bed spaces as soon as possible thereafter,” it said.
“Any increase in inflow on to the site to use contingency bed spaces will be gradual (increasing the maximum inflow from the normal 60 per week to 100 per week) and subject to the same rigorous procedures and reviews as for regular occupancy inflow.”
Can’t we just shoot the people who write like that? People who’ve just been issued their first lanyard trying to sound corporate…..
Sounds like someone for whom English is a second language, especially one from the colonies. The subcontinent or South Africa.
It’s also vey hard to get a direct useable quote from it …
I used to go to airshows at Wethersfield when I was a little younger. 20th Tactical Fighter Wing with F-100s. A friend and I sneaked into a KB-50 and sat in the cockpit. OK, it’s not very OT, but who cares about what’s happening there now?
I drove back from Hull through Lincolnshire the evening before last, and went past Scampton. Paid my respects to Nigger.
“utilise” rather than “use” is a good diagnostic for crap English, though “leverage” is even better.
apparently only 500 there at the moment (google AI)
why tf are we putting others up in expensive hotels then?
is this working?
@Tim Worstall – “is this working?”
No. It’s a form of leisure.