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Home Office urged to axe asylum accommodation contracts amid soaring costs
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ASYLUM accomodation should be decentralised from the Home Office as the costs per person have more than doubled in four years, a new report says today.
Reliance on hotels has led to asylum accomodation and support costs per person soaring from £17,000 in 2019/20 to £41,000 in 2023/24, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found.
The escalating costs and poor standards of accomodation can be reversed by ending national outsourcing contracts with private companies, the think tank said.
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