(BBC) The UK is spending almost £7m a day on hotels for asylum seekers — and the cost is likely to rise, MPs on the Home Affairs Committee have heard.
The figure is more than £2m higher than the government said it was spending in February and includes £1.2m to house Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban.
Meanwhile, the head of a watchdog has described conditions in a migrant processing centre as “wretched.”
David Neal said he was left speechless by conditions at the Kent site.
Mr Neal, independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, visited the site at Manston Airport on Monday and warned it had already passed the point of being unsafe.
