Overpriced asylum prison purchase blasted in scathing report as ‘unacceptable’
The purchase of a derelict prison for £15.4m to house asylum seekers was an “unacceptable waste” of public money, a report has warned. The Public Accounts Committee found the Home Office “rushed” to spend public money to cut costs for supporting asylum seekers, but has “very little to show for its efforts”. The cross-party committee […]