Only 80 migrants housed at RAF Wethersfield more than a month on from first arrivals

But the site has been beset by a number of issues, including reports of disease amongst some of the first group of arrivals and problems with utilities.

The Telegraph also reported that 16 of the initial 46 asylum seekers, who arrived on 12 July, had been transferred back out of the former base.

The paper reported that up to a dozen of those who left Wethersfield were from Eritrea and were said to be “potential victims of modern slavery, which made them ‘unsuitable’ for housing at the camp” according to Home Office rules.”

Most have now been taken back to hotel accommodation and some have been allowed to move in with family or friends.

GB News sources have confirmed that as of today, 80 migrants are being housed at the Essex site.

The Home Office has always maintained that there would be a gradual increase in numbers at Wethersfield, to an eventual total of 1,700 Channel migrants.

But the pace of that expansion is “significantly slower than first envisioned” sources have suggested.

Just days after the first group arrived there, authorities confirmed a small number of asylum seekers were identified as suffering from diseases, including scabies and possible cases of tuberculosis.

On 28 July, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the Agency was “aware of a small number of possible TB cases amongst residents at the Wethersfield accommodation site and are carrying out further investigations.”

At the beginning of August, plans to transfer a second group of around 50 migrants to the site were delayed by issues around the supply of some utilities, including water supplies, to the accommodation blocks.