Government Spends £15 Million a Day on Hotels for Illegal Immigrants: Labour

The Labour Party has suggested that the government is overspending on accommodation and support for illegal immigrants by £4.3 billion, paying £15 million a day on hotels. The Home Office has been estimated to spend £5.4 billion on asylum accommodation and support. The figures, brought forward by the opposition, suggested that the cost to the taxpayer is much higher than that claimed in the Treasury budget last year. Labour said that the government’s failure to clear the backlog of asylum cases led to additional claims for the Treasury, which last year reached £4.3 billion. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of “spending billions on hotel rooms” and exceeding his budget because of the soaring backlog cases....