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Simon Hughes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress made in securing planning permission for each of the planned asylum accommodation centres. [121958]
Beverley Hughes
Planning inquiries for the sites identified at DSDC Bicester and the former RAF Newton concluded on 3 March and 2 May 2003 respectively. We await decisions on these sites from my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister (John Prescott).