Asylum hotels cost £51,000 per person per year. Hosting families get £4,200 to £6,000 per year. The gap is not a rounding error. It is a vast pit of £45,000 of waste per head.
Offer £25,000 to a hosting family. Taxpayers still save around £26,000 per person compared to hotels. Asylum seekers live in real homes. The money stays in local communities. Everyone benefits except the outsourcing companies whose shareholders currently lap up £ billions of public cash.
So why choose £51,000 instead of £25,000. Politics. Ministers fear a headline shouting “asylum seekers given comfy life”. So they waste £ billions to make sure life looks miserable. Cruelty as a budget item.
The backlog is over 100,000 people. Decisions take years. Hotel bills run to £3 million per day. Yes. Per day. All to maintain the illusion that Britain is “tough” while the Treasury haemorrhages cash.
This is not prudence. It is fiscal self harm.
Option A: Pay families £25,000. Spend less. Treat people like humans.
Option B: Pay contractors £51,000. Burn money. Pretend suffering is strength.
The last government chose B.
The calculator says A. The conscience says A. The taxpayer says A. Only the ideology says B. Even the most ardent flag shagger would consider receiving £25k of additional income.
Either fix the system or admit the waste is deliberate.
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