Inside the Home Office's wasted £48.5m taxpayer-splurge on plans to house migrants in RAF base

Inside the Home Office's wasted £48.5m taxpayer-splurge on plans to house migrants in RAF base

A failed plan to use a former RAF site for asylum accommodation has made a loss of more than £48million of British taxpayer cash.The Government axed the controversial proposals for the RAF Scampton site in Lincolnshire in September last year.The Home Office said at the time the site did not "represent value for money".Before the plans - which sparked protests among residents - were thrown out, the Government had already spent £60million on the p…