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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Miriam Burrell

Foreign aid budget ‘raided’ to pay Home Office’s ‘eye watering’ refugee hotel bill

The Home Office has “raided” the foreign aid budget as costs to support refugees in the UK triple, ministers claim.

The Government has spent around £1 billion of the aid budget on refugees inside the UK in 2021, including millions of pounds a day on hotel feels, a scathing report by the International Development Committee released on Thursday said.

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