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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Miriam Burrell

‘Asylum seeker housing to cost £5 billion a year under Government’s Rwanda plan’

Asylum seeker accommodation costs will eventually exceed £5 billion annually even if the Government’s Rwanda deportation plan is ruled lawful by the Supreme Court, a report reveals.

Housing costs will balloon as a “perma-backlog” of asylum seeker cases grows, even if the Government were to remove hundreds of people to Rwanda, think tank Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has said.

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