The Home Office has established four large accommodation sites – the Bibby Stockholm vessel in Dorset, former RAF bases in Wethersfield, Essex and Scampton, Lincolnshire, and former student accommodation in Huddersfield. The Home Office estimated that, by the end of March 2024, it had spent £230 million on the sites, and it expected the Large Sites Programme to cost £1.2 billion over the life of the sites. Two of the sites (Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm vessel) were in use at the time of the session and housing approximately 900 asylum seekers. In total, the Home Office expected these four large sites to accommodate more than 4,500 asylum seekers when fully up and running. It planned there would be 3,700 across the two former RAF bases, approximately 500 aboard the Bibby Stockholm vessel and around 600 in the former student accommodation in Huddersfield. At our evidence session the Home Office told us that it expected to accommodate a maximum of 400 people on board the Bibby Stockholm vessel by June 2024, and that each of the former RAF bases would now accommodate 800 people.19