£15bn on hotels?

Any government has to understand that no ask for belt tightening or tax increases can happen with public support while we are spending this kind of money housing every Tom Dick and Harry who rocks up at Dover. It's absolute insanity and has to stop before we can do anything else

If the previous government had actually processed the claimants, rather than slow the process down and let the numbers pile up then there wouldn't be this issue.

The shit that the Tories did will take years to fix. And they did it deliberately in order to make the next government look bad. They only care about power, not the country, or it's people.

Nothing on smashing the gangs failure?

Numbers crossing are going up, of course it’ll cost to house them.

Agreed, process the claims, and let people get on with their lives instead of being stuck in limbo for a year or more.

Well they have done sweet f all about it in the last year. There is total paralysis with this Government, which is crazy only one year in.

But I was talking more generally. They need to slash public spending but don't have the appetite for it. £100bn per year on debt Interest is disgusting. They have no plan to address this.

it was under the tories that these policies were developed and badly implemented and the money was spent. so blame Boris & co for this utter incompetence.

Home Office isn't responsible for temporary housing for British citizens, just asylum seekers. Homelessness would be covered through separate contracts with local authorities.

They need to get on with making this country less appealing to the chancers that are not at any risk in their home countries and just here for the money. Until they toughen up the boats will keep on coming and the cost will spiral out of control.

Poor people getting fleeced to enable people to come here and commit crime. At least this is how it feels at the minute. I know not all asylum seekers commit crime but why are certain groups pushing people here?

This is not a this government made problem.

They need to get on with reopening the asylum process asap

Yanbu maybe Starmer will do as he says and smash the gangs and they won’t be needed.

Absolute farce

The amount of money wasted by all governments in grotesque.

I struggle to circle the square of ‘austerity’ and being unable to fund basic services, alongside the endless stories of vast, unrestricted spending on projects the public are only half aware of.

This government is a farce. They are incapable of taking action on so many issues

Yes, just when will the Tories take ownership of their mistake in implementing this policy, as well as taking us out of the EU and therefore the Dublin Agreement?

Are you certain that is just for asylum seekers or is it also the cost of housing homeless families temporarily?

A damning report by the Home Affairs Committee says expected costs of Home Office accommodation contracts for 2019-2029 have tripled from £4.5bn to £15.3bn. This follows a "dramatic increase" in demand following the COVID pandemic and rising numbers of those arriving by small boat.