The policy has been widely criticised
, which has begun spending the money to be ready to receive asylum seekers. The Rwandan government said it had begun spending the cash to be ready in time for last week’s flight, which was cancelled at the last minute.
The payments came despite no one-way flights for migrants who arrive in the UK through unauthorised journeys taking off. Pressed whether any of it had already been spent, she said: “Part of it because we needed to get ready and we were ready to receive the first migrants on the 14th.” Mr Johnson’s spokesman said: “The agreement with Rwanda with regards to the funding is confidential. It’s fair to say we have made some payments as part of that migration partnership, that’s correct. Obviously there’s a number of pieces of work they need to do to get things ready, to get things set up.”
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