The department is seeking private companies to manage the Western Jet Foil in Dover and the nearby Manston processing centre.
The Home Office is preparing for small boat crossings of the Channel to carry on for more than a decade after advertising contracts worth more than £520million to manage arrivals.
The duration of the contracts appears to cast doubt on Sir Keir Starmer's promise to 'smash' the people smuggling gangs behind the crossings, although they contain a break clause 'if the need for the services is successfully reduced over time'. The latest arrivals bring the total so far for 2024 to 27,225 which is a 5% increase on the same time last year but 25% less than 2022.
MailOnline last week revealed how an illegal migrant has racked up millions of views on TikTok by boastfully posting videos of him attempting to cross the English Channel on a small boat. Read More Meet the Tiktoking migrant: Afghan with AK47 face tattoo and gun-toting friend on his way to UK Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, wrote on X of the new contracts: '471 illegals crossed the Channel yesterday and now the government is giving out 6 year contracts worth £521m for processing centres. Starmer has no intention of stopping the boats.'
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