THE Home Affairs Select Committee is visiting Dover today to see for itself the work that is being done among asylum seekers at the port and in the town.

The committee is chared by Sunderland South MP Chris Mullin and members include Dover MP Gwyn Prosser and Maidstone and Weald MP Ann Widdecombe.

They will be going to the Eastern Docks where they are expected to interview some of the staff at Migrant Helpline which processes asylum seekers when they arrive in this country.

They will then go on to see the work being done at the induction centre at East Cliff.

The committee has been studying the asylum seeker situation for some time, and has been hearing evidence from various people with experience of migration in various parts of the world.