Tens of millions of taxpayers’ money has been wasted due to blunders involving migrant schemes.
Officials gave incorrect refunds totalling at least £18.7million to migrants who had paid a surcharge towards the NHS, the Home Office’s annual report showed.
Foreign nationals were reimbursed too much money – and the sums are unlikely to be recovered.
In a further gaffe, the Home Office spent £22.9million on an asylum hotel that was never used.
The department signed a nine-month contract on the Atrium Hotel in Hounslow, west London, in August 2025.
It said the hotel was paid for ‘to meet an expected surge in asylum demand’ that
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