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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Estimated cost of asylum seeker accommodation treble what expected, says watchdog

The cost of housing asylum seekers in Britain is expected to be more than triple what the Home Office had estimated, the public spending watchdog has warned.

Housing people from abroad seeking refuge in the UK was expected to cost about £4.5billion between 2019 and 2029, but that is now estimated to rise to £15.3billion, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

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