‘The “#inhumane” treatment of #migrants rounded up in a “futile” operation for the now scrapped #Rwanda scheme, has been laid bare in testimonies from #HomeOffice staff that reveal force was used against distressed detainees.'

'Home Office accounts show the department paid out £56.8m in compensation for more than 2,700 wrongful detentions in the five years before the Rwanda raids.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/revealed-inhumane-treatment-of-migrants-uk-failed-rwanda-plan-laid-bare
#ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #ToryLegacy

#Tory ‘'#FreeMoney’: £4bn lost to fraud and error on flagship #HMRC ‘innovation’ scheme - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/03/free-money-4bn-lost-to-and-error-on-flagship-hmrc-innovation-scheme
#ToryLegacy #ToryWaste

Failed #Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says #YvetteCooper

#HomeSecretary describes #ToryPolicy that #Labour has axed as ‘the biggest waste of #taxpayer money I have ever seen’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/22/failed-rwanda-deportation-scheme-cost-700m-says-yvette-cooper
#ToryWaste

About £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment (#PPE) has been destroyed or written off in what is understood to be the most wasteful government deal of the #pandemic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cll476qzm85o.amp

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #ToryWaste #ToryCorruption #GE2024

Next #UK government faces #payouts to dozens of #RwandaFlightDetainees

Legal actions seek compensation for #AsylumSeekers locked up for weeks without immediate plan for #deportation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/13/next-uk-government-payouts-asylum-seekers-detained-rwanda-deportation
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #GE2024

'#HomeOffice made mistakes in rush to set up housing, MPs say'

'Committee says department pressed ahead with plans without adequate understanding of what would be required'

'The #PublicAccountsCommittee said the department “does not have a credible plan” to send #AsylumSeekers to #Rwanda and has little to show for hundreds of millions of pounds spent so far on the #policy or its accommodation plans'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/home-office-made-mistakes-in-rush-to-set-up-asylum-housing-mps-say

#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIncompetence #ToryWaste #GE2024

'On Sunday it will be exactly two years since #BorisJohnson first announced that the government would send an “uncapped” number of #AsylumSeekers to the east African country within a few weeks.

So far none have been sent, the policy has been estimated to cost more than £500m, and the #SupremeCourt ruled against the policy last year.'

Rwanda deportation flights - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/12/rwanda-deportation-flights-airtanker-charter-airline-talks
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Refugees #ToryIncompetence #ToryWaste #AirTanker

'#MichelleDonelan used £34,000 of #TaxpayerFunds to cover #libel costs

Exclusive: #ScienceSecretary’s legal fees of £19,000 more than doubled sum previously admitted by government'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/11/michelle-donelan-used-34000-of-taxpayer-funds-to-cover-libel-costs
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIllegality #ToryBehaviour #ToryLibel #ToryWaste

#EatOutToHelpOut #Covid19

'#Sunak spent £2m on focus groups for ‘eat out to help out’ scheme

Exclusive: Extensive polling ordered by the then chancellor, documents reveal, but scientific advisers not consulted'
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/11/rishi-sunak-spent-millions-focus-groups-eat-out-to-help-out-scheme
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste

#Rwanda trips by #UK ministers and officials have already cost over £400,000

Figures reveal £413,541 spent on travel since the policy to send #asylum seekers there was devised in 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/22/rwanda-trips-uk-ministers-officials-cost-over-400000
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste #ToryFailure

#JamesCleverly[sic] spent £165,000 on flight to #Rwanda to sign #deportation deal

#HomeSecretary chartered a #PrivateJet to make the one-day round trip to Kigali in December
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/22/james-cleverly-spent-165000-on-flight-to-rwanda-to-sign-deportation-deal
#ToryBehaviour #ToryWaste

Government ‘does not understand how #HS2 will function as railway’

Parliament’s spending watchdog says cancellation of high-speed line’s northern leg raises ‘urgent questions’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/07/government-does-not-understand-how-hs2-will-function-as-railway
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIncompetence #ToryWaste

And further down that page...

'Some £9.9bn of the £13.6bn spent on personal protective equipment (#PPE) has been written down because it was unusable or its value has crashed since the #pandemic PA Media reports
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste or #ToryCorruption, or both? #Covid19

#BorderForce hires private vessels for #Channel patrols after new fleet delayed

Contracts, which will cost £36m a year, tendered following news that existing boats will be replaced four years later than planned
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/border-force-hires-private-vessels-patrol-channel-new-fleet-delayed
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #ToryIncompetence #ToryWaste

The build, demolition and rebuild of three #schools declared unsafe shortly after being built could cost taxpayers at least £150m, the BBC has been told https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-67996302
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Education #Infrastructure #ToryWaste #ToryFailure

Millions wasted on attempt to create nationwide #UK #library website, campaigners claim

Former Waterstones boss Tim Coates among those to criticise government, #ArtsCouncil and BritishLibrary bid to create a ‘single digital presence’ for #libraries
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/30/millions-wasted-on-attempt-to-create-nationwide-uk-library-website-campaigners-claim
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste #ToryIndifference #ToryFailure

When it comes to the #UK’s #asylum plan, #Rwanda is definitely having the last laugh

By next year the British government will have paid out £290m on the scheme – which has yet to host a single #deportee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/08/uk-asylum-rwanda-british-government

#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste

#HomeOffice ordered to give full cost of #Rwanda #deportation plan

Top civil servant summoned to give ‘full and frank’ answers after costs of scheme rose from £140m to £290m
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/08/sunak-didnt-mislead-mps-over-costs-of-rwanda-deportation-plan-says-no-10
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste

‘‘Cloak and dagger tactics’: #Tories paid #Rwanda an extra £100m for #asylum deal

Ministers criticised after civil servant tells MPs payment was made in April after £140m had already been sent'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/08/tories-rwanda-asylum-deal
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste

#DWP errors leave more than 200,000 #pensioners £1.3bn out of pocket

Report concludes government failed to fix basic mistakes and civil servants ‘asleep at the switch.

165,000 also missed out on £1.2bn in the previous year, the #PublicAccountsCommittee (#PAC) found.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/dec/06/dwp-errors-leave-more-than-200000-pensioners-out-of-pocket

#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIneptitude #ToryFailure #ToryWaste #UniversalCredit #Gove