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"The home secretary has ordered an urgent review into the use and cost of taxis ferrying asylum seekers between hotels and to and from medical appointments. Shabana Mahmood's call follows an investigation into life inside asylum hotels, which found one migrant sent on a 250-mile journey to a GP appointment at a cost to the Home Office of 600. In other cases, migrants are transported hundreds of miles across the country via taxi when they are moved between hotels."
The home secretary has ordered an urgent review into the use and cost of taxis ferrying asylum seekers between hotels and to and from medical appointments. An investigation into life inside asylum hotels found one migrant sent on a 250-mile journey to a GP appointment at a cost to the Home Office of £600. In other cases, migrants are transported hundreds of miles across the country via taxi when moved between hotels. It is currently not known how much the Home Office spends each year on such taxi journeys. Housing minister Matthew Pennycook said the Home Office do not have figures and called the long-distance travel 'very questionable.' A Home Office spokesperson gave a brief response.
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