The previous government’s Rwanda deportation scheme has already cost the British taxpayer £700 million, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told the Commons, branding it the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen.”
Cooper told MP’s that over 6 years the previous government had planned to spend over £10b of taxpayers money on the scheme… they did not tell Parliament that… it’s been a costly con..”
Those costs include £290million payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining hundreds of people and then releasing them, and paying for more than a thousand civil servants to work on the scheme.
“A scheme to send four people, it is the most shocking waste of taxpayers’ money I have ever seen. Looking forward, the costs are set to get worse.
“Even if the scheme had ever got going it’s clear it would only cover a minority of arrivals, yet a substantial portion of future costs were fixed costs.
