The Tory Government's controversial plans to deport migrants to Rwanda will cost £169,000 per person, official documents show.
A long-awaited economic assessment of the Illegal Migration Bill revealed revealed it would cost £63,000 more to hand asylum seekers a one-way ticket to the African country than to keep them in the UK.
The draconian "small boats" legislation, which is going through Parliament, aims to crack down on the numbers of people making the perilous Channel crossing to seek a better life in Britain.