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Saturday, 23 August 2025

Home Office tenders for mass fatality tents – ‘what are they expecting?’ (planning)

 The Home Office has awarded a series of contracts to prepare for a ‘mass fatality’ scenario where casualties will need to be treated or stored in huge coronavirus pandemic-style marquees. In a chilling echo of the darkest days of the Covid-19 crisis, large structures are being ordered in preparation for what the department calls “a major incident resulting in a large number of fatalities which could overwhelm existing body storage capacity”.

During the pandemic, the Government and military constructed a series of enormous so-called Nightingale Hospitals after fears were raised that massive casualty numbers from Covid would overwhelm the NHS. As well as treatment beds, huge morgue facilities were also hastily constructed to bolster capacity.

Thankfully, many of the Nightingale facilities remained underused, but similar preparations now appear to be happening once again as part of the Home Office’s “Mass Fatality Capability Resilience Storage Framework”. Reacting to the publication of some of the contracts, Lee Nallalingham, the Interim Branch Chairman of Reform UK, Newham and Tower Hamlets, wrote on X: “This week the Home Office awarded contracts worth over £1m to prepare for a mass fatality event, including capacity to store up to 700 bodies.

Mr Nallalingham added: “What exactly are they expecting?”

One social media user added, “Logistically speaking, this is a good thing, in principle, in terms of progressing with storage in the eventuality something happens…however, it is equally terrifying that someone has assessed current storage and is predicting it is not enough.”...<<<Read More>>>.

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