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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 […]

Home Office pays £15m for site that developers bought for £6m

The Home Office has paid £15 million for an abandoned prison site to use as asylum accommodation, whose owners had bought it for £6 million a year earlier. The deal raises questions about the due diligence completed by the Home Office before handing over taxpayer cash in its rush to move asylum seekers out of […]

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