Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's sites in the UK are being used as processing centres for asylum claimants.

In December 2021, in response to a request for estate to enable processing of cross-channel migrants, Defence made available the former Defence Fire Training and Development Centre at Manston, Kent. The site is operated by the Home Office under a Memorandum of Transfer of Occupation and is the only site within the Defence Estate used for processing of migrants.

In addition, while not used for 'processing' asylum claimants, Napier Barracks in Kent has been made available to the Home Office for a five-year period from 2020 to provide additional asylum accommodation capacity.