The per capita cost of hosting asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom — spending billions of pounds raided from its aid budget — is a staggering 150% higher than in any other leading economy, a new study has calculated.
The U.K. is declaring $25,600 in first-year subsistence bills for each new arrival, the Center for Global Development analysis says, compared with $10,100 in Canada — the next costliest G7 nation.
The figure is more than three times the cost in Italy at $7,800 and the United States at $7,500, and more than four times that in France at $6,400, and Germany at $6,100, which are also members of the Group of Seven leading economies.