Only a tiny fraction of illegal migrants can be kept in barracks despite Labour's push to use the sites to house asylum seekers, a minister has admitted to GB News. Anna Turley, the Home Office minister, told the People's Channel new sites will provide an additional 1,500 places for asylum seekers. Most of them are kept far from the wealthier South East - home to less than seven per cent of all asylum seekers in the country. Every single council area in the North and Yorkshire is home to asylum seekers, while fifth of councils in the South East and South West have no asylum seekers at all. This is the second Cobra meeting this year on heatwaves, after a meeting in June.