Date: 12/06/2008
Source: BBC News
The Home Office has been criticised by a group of MPs for spending £29m on an asylum accommodation centre which was never even built.
Over £6m was paid to consultants for work on the proposed site at Bicester, in Oxfordshire, a report has revealed. A termination fee of almost £8m was also paid to the contractor when the scheme was cancelled.
It said there had been a "startling absence of common sense" in the Home Office's preparation for the project. The report said a pair of consultants were paid more than £1.1m between them for less than three years' work.
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