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Campaigners hit back at ‘criminal’ Rwanda spending
Home Secretary James Cleverly during a visit to Lampedusa, Italy, a small island where thousands of people have died trying to reach by crossing the Mediterranean Sea, April 24, 2024

MIGRANT rights campaigners hit back at the government’s “criminal” spending on its Rwanda deportation scheme today after a parliamentary report found that there was “little to show for money spent so far.”

The Commons public accounts committee (PAC) said that, despite the Home Office “committing significant sums of money to the Rwanda partnership and its large accommodation sites, there is little to show for the money spent so far.”

Amnesty International UK refugee and migrant rights director Steve Valdez-Symonds said the MPs’ report “again confirms the vast amount of taxpayers’ money being wasted by ministers on trying to shirk rather than take their asylum responsibilities.”

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