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Lincolnshire Police £4m out of pocket over broken RAF Scampton promise
Lincolnshire Police will receive only a fraction of the money it was initially promised to police RAF Scampton, the police commissioner has said. Lincolnshire Police was promised nearly £4m in 2023 to ...
‘A staggering waste’: How the Home Office spent £100m on failing to house asylum seekers
A defunct prison in East Sussex is the latest failed attempt to solve the refugee accommodation crisis – thanks to a change ...
Migrants will be housed in hotels for another 4 years as Labour pushes back deadline again
Spending on accommodation and support for asylum seekers has rocketed from £739m in 2019-20 to £4.7bn in 2023-24.
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'Broken promise' over RAF base earmarked for asylum seekers leaves taxpayers millions of pounds out of pocket
Lincolnshire Police faces a severe financial crisis after Labour "broke their promise" over funding for an RAF base which has ...
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'Like mental torture': Life inside the Home Office site housing 500 asylum seekers
Labour initially vowed to close the asylum site at RAF Wethersfield before setting out plans to increase its capacity ...
Taxpayers paid 'steep price' for Northeye - report
The purchase of a derelict prison for £15.4m to house asylum seekers was an "unacceptable waste" of public money, a report has warned. The Public Accounts Committee found the Home Office "rushed" to ...
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Tax payers paid ‘steep price’ for plans to house asylums in derelict Sussex prison, report finds
The Public Accounts Committee found the Home Office ‘rushed’ to spend public money to cut costs but has ‘very little to to show for its efforts’. | ITV News Meridian ...
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Tax payers paid ‘steep price’ for Home Office asylum housing mistakes – report
while £60 million was spent on a site at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, which was scrapped by the new Government in a bid to cut costs before it opened. Committee chairman, Sir Geoffrey Clifton ...