Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service
Asylum seekers will be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments after it was revealed the Home Office spends about £15.8m a year on the service.
From February they will have to use alternative transport such as buses, no matter how urgent their medical needs.
The government, however, has so far rejected pleas to give asylum seekers free access to public transport, which campaigners have been requesting for a number of years.
The taxi ban comes as a result of a government review after an investigation by the BBC found that some people had travelled long distances by taxi to get to medical appointments, including one man who said he had taken a 250-mile taxi ride that cost £600 to visit a GP.
