The Home Office has denied there was a “conflict of interest” when it awarded a £462.6m deal to manage sites used to process migrants arriving in the UK on small boats.
Mitie Care and Custody, a subsidiary of Mitie Group, are suing the department after the contract for two Kent sites, Western Jet Foil in Dover and the Manston processing centre, went to MTC Definitive.
High Court documents claimed the Home Office failed to “prevent, identify and remedy conflicts of interest” because MTC’s head of development, Dave Butler, was previously deputy director of Manston.
A defence filed by the Home Office said the claim was “baseless” and without merit, with no conflict of interest.
