Posted 12/8/2023, 12:55:00 PM
Rwanda deportation policy costs could have funded 400,000 asylum caseworkers
- Almost 400,000 asylum claims could have been processed with the £290m already committed to the Rwanda policy
- Analysis shows the money could have funded over 3,000 additional asylum caseworkers for 3 years
- Each caseworker could have cleared 44 cases per year - over 400,000 total
- Former shadow home secretary says Rwanda must be "laughing all the way to the bank"
- Immigration minister Robert Jenrick resigned over new Rwanda legislation, facing pressure from Conservative backbenchers