One Fifth of Foreign Aid Budget Spent on Migrant Hotels in the UK

A new report today from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) calculates that a fifth of the now-reduced foreign aid and development budget is now being used to fund asylum hotels. Global Britain…

Under international rules some ‘in-donor refugee costs’ like asylum housing are counted as foreign aid spending – in the next financial year those are set to take up £2.2 billion of the UK’s £10 billion official development assistance budget.[…] Read the rest