One Fifth of Foreign Aid Budget Spent on Migrant Hotels in the UK – Guido Fawkes

One Fifth of Foreign Aid Budget Spent on Migrant Hotels in the UK

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A new report today from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) calculates that a fifth of the now-reduced foreign aid and development budget is now being used to fund asylum hotels. Global Britain…

Under international rules some ‘in-donor refugee costs’ like asylum housing are counted as foreign aid spending – in the next financial year those are set to take up £2.2 billion of the UK’s £10 billion official development assistance budget. According to the ICAI’s analysis of Spending Review figures the share of foreign aid spend on hotels will then drop to £1.8 billion the following year and £1.5 billion by 2028-29. The ODA budget is dropping in 2027 too. Those figures assume Labour can fulfil its doubted promise to end migrant hotel use…