The cost of housing migrants in Britain has tripled to £4 million (€4.7 million) a day, according to The Telegraph.
Official data show that hotel and other asylum accommodation originally set to cost £4.5 billion between 2019 and 2029 is now expected to reach £15.3 billion—enough money to build up to fifteen new hospitals.
There were 38,000 migrants housed in hotels as of December 2024, and a further 66,000 asylum seekers were in “dispersed accommodation,” which is mainly self-catering houses and flats.
The figures come as Keir Starmer’s Labour government fails to deal with a surge of boat crossings across the Channel carrying illegal migrants.
The immigration crisis has unsurprisingly catapulted opposition party Reform UK to the top of the polls.
