Home Office pave the way for spending millions more on resettling asylum seekers at taxpayers’ expense

THE Home Office yesterday paved the way to spend millions more on resettling asylum seekers at the taxpayers’ expense.

Department Minister Baroness Williams has extended a contract with outsourcing company G4S.

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The firm’s agents were panned in the summer for painting the doors of refugees’ homes red.

The Home Office is also introducing “higher price bands” to allow refugees to be housed in more affluent parts of Britain.

Official figures show there were 40,000 asylum seekers in the last year.

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