This year, the public will spend a record £5.4 billion, or £15 million per day, on migrant hotels and other forms of refugee help.
The Home Office had to get an additional £4 billion from the Treasury to cover a significant overspend on refugee accommodation due to skyrocketing prices.
According to official documents, the Home Office would overspend £5.9 billion in the fiscal year 2023–24 on all sectors related to immigration and asylum.
According to a Labour Party review of the data, there was an 'eye-watering' £4.3 billion overspending on refugee help throughout the course of the year.
Currently, over 50,000 asylum seekers are staying in hotels throughout the nation on a full-board basis.
The £5.4 billion also covers asylum seekers living in self-catering accommodation, who receive £49.18 a week for each person in their household to cover food, clothing, and other costs.
In a letter to the Commons Home Affairs committee, published yesterday, Home Office mandarin Sir Matthew Rycroft said asylum was 'a volatile area to budget'.
The permanent secretary said the £4 billion extra allocated to asylum support 'was not an unanticipated spend but a result of record levels of small-boat arrivals since the Spending Review 2021'.
In addition, the Home Office was given an extra £1.2 billion to implement the Illegal Migration Act and Rishi Sunak's ten-point plan to combat illegal immigration, which he set out in July 2022. The department also secured an extra £500 million for Afghan resettlement schemes. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said, 'This lays bare the complete chaos the Tories have created in the asylum system.
'They are spending billions on hotel rooms because of their failure to clear the backlog of asylum applications. Despite promises of action from the Prime Minister, they have not delivered and now the Home Secretary has been forced to go to the Chancellor with a begging bowl because he's bust his budget by over £5 billion.'
Immigration minister Michael Tomlinson said, 'Labour have no plan to stop the boats and would take us back to square one, meaning unlimited and uncontrolled immigration. Sir Keir Starmer's approach to immigration would mean an extra 250,000 migrants a year.'
The government plan to remove 'irregular' migrants to Rwanda—to claim asylum there rather than here—was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court in November.
There's an endless money tree for boat arrivals but no funding for the NHS, schools, or any other public services.
Our Prime Minister and MPs are the enemies of the state. The trouble is, it won't be any better under Labour if they get elected. This is insane, and it has to stop. But, folks, it's all by design.
Then there are our PTSD-affected ex-servicemen who are homeless in the UK. Our politicians appear to be betraying the United Kingdom.
Getting rid of all these boat people ought to be the priority. Brexit was meant to put an end to this, but now we have fishy Rishi and his MP buddies who are always lying to us.
This is truly ridiculous. Taxpayers' money is wasted on political cowardice. No wonder we're strapped for cash; this is all political suicide, but then it's all about making massive profits.
Our government gives us all these promises, but then they refuse to act. We need to get Britain back under control with a new leader. One that isn't kept by a multi-millionaire wife. Someone who has had to struggle very hard in life and has worked hard for what they've got. Someone who didn't go to a private school and wasn't born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
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