Labour spending £2.2bn a year of foreign aid on asylum seeker hotels

The government is spending around £2.2billion a year of foreign aid on housing asylum seekers in hotels in the UK.

Figures released by the Home Office show Labour only managed to reduce its spending on official development assistance between 2024/25 by around £1million, the BBC reports.

That is despite the party's election manifesto pledge to 'end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds'.

Official development assistance (ODA) is known at the UK's overseas aid budget and is used to promote the economic development and welfare in developing countries around the world.

The Home Office is allocated a portion of this money to support refugees and asylum seekers shortly after their arrival into Britain, of which a large amount is spent on their accommodation.