Thursday 22 September 2022 10:11 PM Cost of housing Channel migrants in hotels soars to £1.3bn a year... trends now

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The cost of housing Channel migrants and other asylum seekers in hotels has rocketed to £1.3billion a year, according to an analysis.

Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tougher border controls, said the accommodation was costing almost £4,300 per head each month – equivalent to one and a half times the average NHS nurse’s monthly wage.

The £1.3billion figure was calculated from official figures released in February which showed 25,000 migrants were in hotels on full board.

However, the true cost to the taxpayer is now likely to be far higher because more than 28,000 additional migrants have since arrived in the UK by small boat from northern France.