A Fifth Of The UK’s Aid Budget Is Spent On Housing Migrants

A fifth of the UK aid budget is spent on housing migrants in the UK, the aid watchdog has said in a report.

Using funds meant to help those overseas on those in the UK poses a ‘serious risk to value for money’, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) warned.

It said that in 2024, £2.8 billion was spent on hosting migrants and asylum seekers – £1 billion more than on humanitarian aid, despite crises in Gaza and Sudan.

Aid spending is expected to fall from 0.5 per cent of UK gross national income (GDP) to 0.3 per cent from 2027, with the saved money redirected to defence.

Spending on foreign aid has long been plagued by accusations of waste and fraud, as well as claims that it has aided terrorist organisations.

The report found that setting a figure for aid spending as a proportion of GDP and including asylum costs ‘undermined value for money’.

It warned that any rise in spending on the unpredictable cost of hosting migrants meant funding would automatically be taken from overseas spending.

It also said that the Home Office’s ability to charge an uncapped amount of spending on migrants had ‘not encouraged long-term planning to secure improvements in value for money.’

This means that the UK’s spending on housing migrants is ‘double or triple’ that of other comparable countries, and the highest cost per head, it said.

In 2023, when spending on migrants peaked at 28 per cent of the total aid budget, the report said that this represented a ‘perverse outcome’ for overseas aid.

It has called for the two to be separated due to the demand-driven nature of support for migrants.

International aid regulations allow certain expenses, such as lodging, food, medical care, and children’s education, to be deducted from aid expenditures during a migrant’s first year in the UK.

But the report found that these costs have increased dramatically in recent years, largely due to a steep rise in the costs per head of support.

Increased arrivals of migrants – including Afghans following the Taliban resurgence and Ukrainians following Russia’s invasion – added to a backlog of undecided asylum claims, it said.

A lack of accommodation has meant the Home Office has needed to house migrants in costly rented hotels.

It said that based on Government figures in the 2025 Spending Review, it expects spending on migrants to continue to take a fifth of the aid budget.

Our government has destroyed our once beautiful and thriving country.

We are told that we are lacking in housing, but we’re not. What we do have is a glut of foreign migrants, with more crossing the Channel every day.

Nearly every other country in the world deports illegal migrants, but for some reason, Starmer finds it incomprehensible. Human Rights are extremely profitable, and our government needs to keep that money flowing by rolling out the red carpet to migrants.

Migrants speak of the very nice life they have been given at expensive 4-star hotels, which are being paid for by you, the taxpayer.

Migrants staying at an exclusive four-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport have spoken of being housed in ‘very nice’ accommodation.

The Crowne Plaza, London Heathrow off the M4 motorway in West Drayton, Middlesex, boasts 465 rooms, a swimming pool and gym, but instead of paying guests, the hotel is being used to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers, despite our Labour Government’s promise to end the use of hotels for migrants.

And in the meantime, while our elderly die on hospital gurneys in corridors, migrants are getting everything they want. It now appears that our Government despise its British people.

No money should be spent by our government unless it is for UK citizens who were born in the United Kingdom, because it’s disgraceful that our government prioritises those who have no right to be here over those who do have a right.

Of course, there is an ulterior motive. Labour for votes!

In my opinion, there should be no aid budget when our pensioners can’t even heat their homes, and a lot of families can’t afford to feed their children, or afford winter coats for them. We should not be supporting other countries that have never put a penny into the system when our own go without.