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January 10, 2014
Millions of pounds from Britain’s controversial overseas aid budget is being diverted to fund housing and benefits for asylum seekers living in the UK.
The Home Office, one of the departments hit hardest by the Chancellor’s spending cuts, is quietly siphoning off around £10million a year.
The cash, which is enough to put 200 police officers on the streets, would otherwise have to be found from the department’s own budget.
Officials insist the raid on the swollen £11billion international aid budget falls within international rules for development spending. Crucially, it counts towards the contentious Government target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid.
The news that not all the money is being sent overseas was welcomed by backbench Tories, who have criticised generous spending by the Department for International Development (DfID).
Andrew Percy, Tory MP for Brigg and Goole, said: ‘If we do have to provide this support within our international obligations it is right it should come from the foreign aid budget.
‘It should not come from the Home Office budget which should be spent on policing, immigration and border controls.’
The Mail has long highlighted some of the controversial ways aid is spent. Recipients have, for example, included India and Nigeria, which have their own space programmes.
The aid money being taken by the Home Office pays for accommodation for asylum seekers and their families during their first 12 months in the UK. It also funds cash support, or benefits.
