Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her oral answer on 7 June 2021,Official Report, column 664, if she will publish (a) a list of the wide range of covid-compliant measures that were taken at Napier barracks and (b) the dates on which those measures were implemented.

The following covid-compliant measures have been implemented at Napier Barracks:

• 2 metres distance between beds since it opened.
• Strengthened cleaning regime in March.
• Personal cleaning equipment is provided to service users.
• 3 lateral flow tests a week from June having risen from 2 weekly lateral flow tests in April.
• Participant of Test and Trace.
• Staggered access to communal areas including the canteen since communal areas re-opened in May.
• Provision of hand sanitiser around the site since it opened.
• Signage on covid compliance around the site in various languages and pictogram.
• Reduction in overall capacity from 399 to 337 from April.

Due to the temporary and transient nature of Initial Accommodation, we publish stats which show how many asylum seekers are accommodated in each Local Authority, rather than by individual location:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2021