UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments

The government said robust new rules would mean taxis would be ‘strictly limited to exceptional, evidenced cases’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Asylum seekers will be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments after it was revealed the Home Office spends about £15.8m a year on the service.

From February they will have to use alternative transport such as buses, no matter how urgent their medical needs.