'One in, one out' scheme costs £56,000 per person returned to France, home secretary says

Shabana Mahmood says the policy has been "difficult" to scale up and the numbers involved are still "relatively small".

Home secretary defends cost, saying it is about the same or cheaper than putting someone up in a hotel for a year The government’s “one in, one out” deal is costing about £56,000 for every person sent back to France, Shabana Mahmood has told MPs. The home secretary disclosed the…