The cost of “cultural enrichment”…….
£600,000 a week! What we pay for asylum seekers’ legal fight to STAY in the UK
TAXPAYERS are forking out more than £600,000 a week in legal aid to asylum seekers, official figures revealed yesterday.
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Gerard Batten argued that Britain need to take back control and reform the system
This was a sharp rise on the previous 12 months when £30million was spent on 34,000 cases.
The Ministry of Justice figures show that in five years £166million of legal aid has gone to asylum seekers and migrants – including thousands whose claims have been rejected.
In the first three months of this financial year, from April to June, £8.2million was spent on legal advice in almost 10,000 cases.
That compares with £6.7million spent over the same three months in 2014.