Asylum

Watchdog slams Home Office for £2.6bn asylum overspend

A watchdog has criticised the Home Office for years of poor budgeting, leading to significant overspending on asylum. Over the past three years, the Home Office allocated £110 million annually for asylum operations. However, a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) revealed that the actual expenditure averaged £2.6 billion each year. Max Warner, a research economist for the…