Costs of trying to deport asylum seekers cannot be recovered if Labour wins and disbands policy
More than £320m spent by the government on the controversial scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is likely to be lost if theLabour has described the scheme as a gimmick that will go down in history as “one of the most absurd and wasteful
Other monies spent that cannot be refunded include £2.3m on legal fees for the Home Office to respond to legal challenges against Rwanda, Home Office direct staffing costs for the scheme, which stood at £2m in February 2024, £413,541 ontravelling to Rwanda at various points since the deal was announced in April 2022 and an estimated £500,000 in the cost of arresting and detaining more than 100 asylum seekers who were intended to be sent to Rwanda.
The Home Office has always acknowledged that the Rwanda deal is a “high risk and novel policy” and agreed to monitor the ETIF funding because, according to the NAO report: “The Home Office has recognised the need to manage the risk of fraud, bribery and corruption.” It is unclear what will happen to this monitoring of the non-refundable hundreds of millions if the Conservatives do not win the election.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Woman throws milkshake at Nigel Farage on first day of campaigningReform UK leader accuses Tories and Labour of not being ‘genuinely patriotic’
Read more »
Rwanda opposition leader barred from standing against presidentDiane Rwigara’s name missing from list of candidates for 15 July vote to challenge Paul Kagame
Read more »
Home secretary’s aide says Rwanda policy is ‘crap’, in leaked recordingJames Sunderland, an aide to James Cleverly who is seeking re-election as MP, made comments at event in April
Read more »
Tories pursuing ‘ostrich strategy’ on Facebook campaign adsParty is focusing on 80 seats it came closest to losing in last election and 20 seats it came closest to winning
Read more »
Now they think they’ve lost, the Tories are full of big ideasNational service? Abolishing university places? This absurd flurry of announcements is to make it seem, once Sunak has gone, that they did everything they could
Read more »
Tories will allow bars on trans women, says Kemi BadenochConservatives would change law so trans people could be excluded from single-sex spaces, if party wins election
Read more »