The government’s new asylum plans will cost the taxpayer more than two and a half billion pounds a year, almost double what is spent on the current system, according to a new analysis.
A report by Together With Refugees, a coalition whose members include the British Red Cross and the Refugee Council, calculates that the additional spending needed to pay for five major new components of the UK’s asylum under the Nationality and Borders Bill will cost £2.7bn annually.
