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Home Office Contracts Fail, Asylum Bills Soar to £15 Billion
Flawed 2019 deals triple costs amid hotel reliance and unrecovered profits
UK asylum accommodation costs have ballooned to £15.3 billion due to flawed contracts and oversight lapses, revealing cross-party institutional failures that waste taxpayer funds and fuel social tensions. This pattern underscores broader governance decay unaffected by changes in power.