Lord Kennedy of Southwark
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Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
What is a great worry to the Government is that the costs of the migration system, as I mentioned earlier in answer to my noble friend, have doubled to £4 billion this year. As the noble Lord has just rightly referenced, we are spending £8 million a day on hotels. That is clearly unsustainable and I do not think it represents value for money.
Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab Co-op)
My Lords, my noble friend Lady Taylor asked the Minister a simple question: have Ministers been required to issue letters of direction to instruct civil servants to proceed with this, because of the issues with this scheme? The answer is either that, yes, they have, or no, they have not. Which is it?
Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
The answer is that I do not know. I will have to write to the noble Lord.