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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

Home Office spends £1.2m a day housing asylum seekers and Afghan refugees in hotels

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The government is spending £1.2m a day on housing asylum seekers and Afghan refugees in hotels, it has emerged.

More than £438m a year is being spent accommodating about 37,000 individuals who have been evacuated from Afghanistan or are claiming asylum in the UK, a Home Office official has admitted.

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