UK Daily Mail
August 3, 2015
August 3, 2015
Migrants
who have managed to reach Britain from Calais are being driven to new homes in
London by taxi for up to £150 a time at the taxpayers’ expense, it has been
reported.
One taxi
driver for a Dover-based firm said the company had made ‘seven or eight’
70-mile journeys to the capital in the last week – resulting in a bill
that could reach £1,200.
Most of
the journeys are believed to involve migrants who are under 18 to specialist
temporary accommodation.
They are
being paid for by Kent County Council’s social services department, according
to the Daily Telegraph.
A
spokesman for the authority said: ‘It has been necessary to transfer some by
taxi, for which charges of up to £150 are not unusual, depending on distance.’
The move
has been deemed necessary because the council has run out of suitable
accommodation to house migrants in its own district and is therefore having to
send them further afield.