Desperate staff buy pizza, blankets and roll mats for Channel migrants

The Home Office regularly publishes details of spending above £500 using departmental procurement cards.

It is only a small portion of the wider costs of responding to the crisis.

Here are the details for August and September: 

SEPTEMBER 

19/9/2021 – £1,003.30 Food Supplies For Operational Officers At Tug Haven

30/09/2021 – £1,409.10 Payment For Several Tows And Boatlifts Of Migrant Vessels At Ramsgate

06/09/2021 Go Outdoors – £500.00 Purchase Of 50 Rolls Mats For Use At Tug Have By Migrants Who Have To Sleep Overnight. Instructed By HO personnel To Purchase Them For Level 1 Day Following

06/09/2021 – Go Outdoors – rollmats for sleeping on – £1490.00

07/09/2021 – £799.00 – Part Order Of Rollmats To Support Migrants Overnighting At Tug Haven.

07/09/2021 – SumUp Cinque Ports C – £1108.60 – Hot Food For Staff During Op Altair

08/09/2021 – £1,123.20 – Food Provisions For Staff Welfare When Dealing With Channel Migrant Issues On Extended Shifts And High Arrival Numbers.

09/09/2021 LA FRIENDS PIZZERIA – £519.00 – Hot Food For Migrants Staying Overnight At The Tug Haven During Op Altair

10/09/2021 SumUp Cinque Ports – £940.90 – Food Purchased For Staff At Tug Haven. This Has Been Authorised By HO personnel

13/09/2021 AMAZON – £1,719.50 – Camera Film Purchased By The Clandestine Operational Response Team (Cort) For Use At The Tug Haven In Dover Where We Have Migrants Arriving On Small Boats. All Migrants Require An Instant Photo Taken On Arrival

13/09/2021 SPRINGWISEBOTTLEDW – £503.16 – Provision Of Bottled Water For Migrants And Officers At Tug Haven Site.

13/09/2021 SumUp Cinque Ports – £1,125.80 – Food Provisions For Staff Welfare When Dealing With Channel Migrant Issues On Extended Shifts And High Arrival Numbers

13/09/2021 UNIVERSEALK – £540.00 – Provision Of Property Tags – Tug Haven, Dover.

15/09/2021 POLYBAGS LIMITED – £906.18 – Provision Of Property Bags At Tug Haven, Dover. Unavailable Via Existing Contract

16/09/2021 SumUp Cinque Ports – £802.60 – Food Provisions For Staff Welfare When Dealing With Channel Migrant Issues On Extended Shifts And High Arrival Numbers

20/09/2021 SumUp Cinque Ports C – £939.60 – Staff Catering Van For Level 1 Stand Up Day

22/09/2021 SumUp Cinque Ports – £915.40 – Provision Of Hot Food For Officers Working At Tug Haven

23/09/2021 Dominos (Dover) – £2,748.75 – Hot Food For Migrants Staying Overnight At Tug Haven During Op Altair

23/09/2021 SumUp Cinque Ports – £1,092.00 – Hot Food For Staff During Op Altair

24/09/2021 POLYBAGS LIMITED – £888.29 – Property Bags, Tug Haven, Dover – Unavailable Via Existing Contract

24/09/2021 SumUp Cinque Ports – £715.30 – Hot Food Provision For Officers Working At Tug Haven, Dover

27/09/2021 Dominos (Dover) – £872.07 – Provision Of Hot Food For Migrants At Tug Haven Site, Dover

27/09/2021 Dominos (Dover) – £1,686.45 – Hot Food Requirement For Migrants Spending Overnight At Tug Haven

27/09/2021 Dominos (Dover) – £1,700.00 – Food For Migrants Being Detained At Tug Haven Overnight. Th Does Not Have A Kitchen Facility, So There Are No Other Options. This Purchase Was Ordered by authorised staff.

27/09/2021 SPRINGWISEBOTTLEDW – £503.16 – Bottled Water Supply. Tug Haven. Dover.

28/09/2021 Dominos (Dover) – £514.00 – Pizzas For Migrants Held Overnight At Tug Haven Due To Not Being Able To Move Them On To Accommodation Within The Home Office Estate. Tug Haven Is A Tent In A Car Park

28/09/2021 – Dominos (Dover) – £3,143.00 – Food For Migrants Held Overnight At Tug Haven Due To No On Going Facilities In The Home Office Estate. Tug Haven Is A Tent In A Car Park So Therefore So Other Means Of Feeding Them

AUGUST

10/08/2021 ENTERPRISE BRANDS – £1,292.67 – Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

10/08/2021 ENTERPRISE BRANDS – £1,499.82 – Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

10/08/2021 ENTERPRISE BRANDS – £2,045.40 Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

10/08/2021 ENTERPRISE BRANDS – £2,325.93 Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

10/08/2021 ENTERPRISE BRANDS – £2,829.21 Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

12/08/2021 ENTERPRISE BRANDS- £2,875.45 – Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

12/08/2021 ENTERPRISE BRANDS – £4,622.21 – Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

13/08/2021 Dominos (Dover) – £1,231.75 – Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

23/08/2021 Dominos (Dover) – £2,100.00 – Evening Food For Migrants Spending The Late Evening On Tug Haven

23/08/2021 SUBWAY – £9,42.00 – Urgent Food Provision For Migrants At Tug Haven, Dover.

26/08/2021 BOOKER LIMITED FOLKEST – £760.12 – Provisions For Migrants At Staff At Tug Haven

31/08/2021 CRITICAL HEALTHCARE – £2,771.08 – Blankets For Migrants Who Are Cold And Have In Sea

31/08/2021 CRITICAL HEALTHCARE – £2,771.08 – Blankets For Migrants Who Are Cold And Have In Sea