Home Office reviewing migrant taxi use after hospital trip cost £600

Ministers are reviewing the use of taxis to take asylum seekers to hospital appointments, after it emerged that some trips are costing the taxpayer £600 a time.

Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, told Times Radio that the Home Office was looking into the claims which emerged in a BBC report.

It found that a failed asylum seeker staying in a hotel used by the Home Office had been sent on a 250-mile taxi journey that cost £600 for a knee check-up.

Migrants who have arrived in the UK and applied for asylum are given transport to health appointments by the Home Office

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