The cost of hosting asylum seekers, at taxpayer expense, in hotels across the United Kingdom is now around £8 million (~$10 million) per day, with waves of illegals being ferried to England from safe European Union (EU) countries.
The Home Office revealed the figure in its annual accounts, which shows a rise of millions of pounds per day compared to just last year, when it was already considered remarkably high.
Migrant boat crossings in the English Channel were first declared a “major incident” in 2018, but a series of promises to stop them using new Brexit powers — by turning boats back, or by transferring migrants to Rwanda — have all gone undelivered, with crossings increasing from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands year on year.
While politicians and the media have focused much of the nation’s attention on the cost of hosting boat migrants in hotels, as well as a failing effort to lodge a handful on a barge (which they would still be free to leave at will), the true cost of accommodating them is far higher than the headline figure of £8 million a day.
Tens of thousands have been allocated so-called “dispersal accommodation” – mostly apartments and houses – at a cost of well over half a billion pounds a year.
