TAXPAYERS will pay more than £1billion to fund the most lucrative migrant centre contract ever offered by the Home Office.
Ministers are preparing to strike a ten-figure deal to run the 1,000-space Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre from 2028 to 2038, a Sun investigation can reveal.
Around 900 detainees will be entitled to art lessons, maths tutors, in-house NHS treatment, and round-the-clock welfare support under the deal, which proves the migrant gravy train is far from over.
Additionally, those held at the centre’s two sites will be offered leisure activities, such as films and table tennis.
They can even sign up for £1-an-hour paid jobs like clearing tables, cooking or running an on-site gym.
The spending plans were quietly published through the government’s contract tender service, with would-be suppliers asked to get in touch and make a bid.
But there was fury last night as figures showed the annual cost of the centre could double from its current cost of £52.5million-a-year, agreed in 2017, to more than £100million-a-year.
Even accounting for eight years of inflation, the increase is 42 per cent more than previous spending on the site, which comprises two different facilities a few miles apart.
Home Office sources said the most recent notice had been posted for “information-gathering purposes only”.
But last night, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp fumed: “This Labour government is spending £1billion on an immigration centre that could be open for ten years by their own estimate.
“This is what happens when a government does not have the backbone to remove people who arrive illegally.”
A Home Office spokeswoman said: “The new Heathrow contract will go through a competitive process to ensure value for taxpayers.”
