Home Office chiefs have earmarked £647 million for processing small-boat migrants arriving in Britain over the next 10 years, underlining how they expect the problem only to get worse. The Mail has the story.
The latest Government contract to run a reception centre in Kent covers 10 years – underlining how officials expect the Channel problem to grow.
Details were revealed of new deals with two firms to operate the arrivals facility in Manston. They are to run for at least six years, with options to extend to 10.
Overall the contract is worth £539,116,089 plus VAT, making a total of £647 million if the deal runs for 10 years.
US-owned prison firm Management and Training Corporation (MTC) has been given the lion’s share of the contract, with Crawley-based Definitive PSA Limited also taking a chunk.
Both firms are already involved in running the Manston base, near Ramsgate, where new Channel arrivals are taken to be processed into Britain by Home Office staff and assessed by Border Force officials.
It sees migrants held for a maximum of 96 hours for identity, security and health checks before being transported to other accommodation around the UK.
Details in the contract, published on the Government website, said the service providers would be “responsible for supporting with the processing of individuals arriving via Small Boats, from the point of disembarkation through to dispersal”.
In its last accounts, MTC said it turned over £28.4 million in 2024, which was a rise of £5.2 million on the previous year. …
The Home Office said: “This Government has reduced asylum support costs by nearly a billion since the General Election. This new contract is expected to generate significant yearly savings for the taxpayer by streamlining the number of suppliers.”
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MPs have the power to end taxpayer support for illegals by voting it down the budget.
Excellent point!
What happened to “smash the gangs”? How many “Mister Bigs” have been indicted and how much has been recovered from them?
Empty words.
How much money would be saved if the government abolished the totally ineffectual Royal Navy?
They have pretty much done that already!
£647 million more reasons to vote for Reform then – and stop the invasion.
Indeed, thought he Restore fanatics seem determined to give Labour another try.
AIM HIGH VOTE LOWE MILLIONS MUST GO!
Rupert Lowe’s RESTORE BRITAIN has a better plan, with no need for any accommodation or welfare benefits at all:
“Detain. Deport.”
Hong Kong stopped the Invasion of Vietnamese Boat People simply by declaring them all illegal economic immigrants, and repatriating them back to Vietnam. No discussions, no appointments for interviews, no “charities”, no appeals, no asylum processing, no lawyers, no judges, no special treatment for “child refugees”, no housing or welfare benefits, just automatic repatriation, which effectively discouraged and stopped it all.
People of the West, take note.
The contract should have cancellation provisions by HMG. When Reform get in the housing will no longer be needed. Instead, and with rapidly declining capacity, there will need to be detention centres instead.
Almost £65 million a year on looking after illegals for the first 4 days they’re in the UK!
Even if the number of arrivals rises to 60,000 this is over £250 per person per day, a lot more than this if a lot of them only stay at Manston for a couple of days.
What the hell is this money being spent on?
In other words there is no intention of stopping the invasion over the next ten years. On the contrary, the government is setting out plans to accommodate the Turd Worlders.
But they said they would stop the boats – some people might even have believed them!
Someone commented elsewhere, when that Vertically Challenged Hindu Billionaire was PM, that even if he mounted machine gun turrets all along the south coast shooting the dinghies, he still wouldn’t be re-elected. Hmmm…
To be fair they said they would ‘smash the gangs’, then they said they would ‘smash the outboard engines’, and er,….then they gave up.