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<p>The costs of our broken asylum system are at a 20 year record high, currently costing
the UK taxpayer over £1.5bn a year, with £4.7 million a day being spent on hotels
alone. This cannot continue – and the partnership with Rwanda is a key part of our
plans to reform the system and put an end to unsustainable costs which impact the
taxpayer.</p><p>The Government’s efforts to facilitate entirely legitimate and legal
returns of people who have entered the UK illegally are too often frustrated by late
challenges submitted hours before the flight. These claims are very often baseless
and entirely without merit, but are given full legal consideration which can lead
to removal being rescheduled.</p><p>Costs for individual flights and legal services
will vary based on a number of different factors and are regularly reviewed to ensure
that best value for money is balanced against the need to remove those individuals
with no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>We do not routinely disclose commercial or
operational information relating to individual charter flights.</p>
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