Confusion was caused earlier this week when Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick sent a note to Wigan MP Lisa Nandy alerting her to the fact that “the migrant hotel in her constituency” would be one of those in the first 50 the Government intends to cease using in the next three months.
The note didn’t recognise that there were in fact two such establishments in her constituency and both in Standish: the Britannia at Almond Brook and Kilhey Court, Worthington.
Clarification for the MP and Wigan Council was promised on Thursday but it failed to emerge and then it was even then suggested by the Home Office that there might have been an error in suggesting a Wigan establishment was in the first wave of closures.
But Wigan Today has now been informed that letters are being sent to both parties, confirming that it will be Kilhey Court that will no longer house migrants by January’s end.
The announcement only in August that the popular venue was being handed over by Macdonald Hotels and Spas to the Home Office and migrant accommodation operator Serco caused a storm of protest.
Staff were axed, people with functions – including weddings – were forced to make 11th hour alternative arrangements, and there was a torrent of complaints about the venture itself.
