Failed asylum seekers cost £62million a year

TAXPAYERS are spending £62million every year on housing and handouts for asylum seekers who had their claims rejected but stayed in the UK anyway.

- By Jonathan Walker WHITEHALL EDITOR

Migrants are eligible for financial help if they cannot secure adequate accommodation or meet their essential living needs.

Reform MP Lee Anderson said the figures exposed the chaos and incompetence in the nation’s immigration system.

He said: "This is an insult to the taxpayer and a clear example of everything wrong with our immigration system, political class, and incompetent Home Office.

"A Reform government will ensure that any asylum seeker whose claim has been rejected is deported without delay."

Mr Anderson added: "We will not continue to live in a country where Britons are treated as second-class citizens, taken advantage of and forced to fund the lives of those who have no right to be here."

Home Office statistics showed there are 4,447 people across the country receiving Section 4 support, which is paid to people who have had their asylum claim refused, as well as their dependants.