The Home Office does not know how many asylum seekers have gone missing since entering the UK, a damning new report has revealed. The National Audit Office's (NAO) report, revealed on Monday (December 10), has exposed several worrying issues with the country's asylum process, one plagued by major inefficiencies, "wasted public funds" and a string of "short-term, reactive" Government policies that have transferred problems, not fixed them.

Monday's report also revealed that the asylum system cost the taxpayer an eyewatering £4.9 billion in 2024-25 , primarily for providing taxpayer-funded migrant hotels and other accommodations. However, this figure does not include major expenditures, such as legal aid for asylum seekers' lawyers and the costs incurred by local councils when the

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