Fifteen months after the Government announced that they were taking over the whole of RAF Scampton and putting 2,000 migrants there, not a single one has arrived.
We have fought the Home Office to a complete standstill and everything we have said has been proved correct; the costs are rising exponentially from £5 million to £27 million, and the buildings are decaying, as is the runway.
The Labour party has now joined me in my early-day motion against this proposal.
We have involved the Levelling Up Secretary, who is now imposing all sorts of conditions on the Home Office.
I asked ministers to ensure that their attention is laser-focused on working with us and doing what we have argued for from the beginning: releasing the entire site to Scampton Holdings so that we can get the biggest and best levelling up we have ever had on a former RAF base.
Fifteen months since the Government announced they were taking over Scampton to house 2,000 migrants and not a single one has arrived.
— Sir Edward Leigh MP (@EdwardLeighMP) May 1, 2024
The site needs to be released for redevelopment so that we can get the biggest and best levelling up deal we've ever had for an RAF base. pic.twitter.com/YdVjwZvtwl