Cruel asylum policy is costing us more than money | Letter

Suzanne Fletcher says allowing asylum seekers to work and housing them in communities rather than detention centres would save billions of pounds and even livesNot only is the government going to spend £2.7bn on implementing the dreadful nationality and borders bill (Refugee group warns of ‘astonishing’ cost of new Home Office policies, 14 February), but it is already spending more than it needs on existing policies.There are billions that could be saved if it stopped detaining