{"id":77408,"date":"2025-07-15T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77408"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:34:09","slug":"asylum-costs-set-to-take-up-fifth-of-uks-shrunken-aid-budget-watchdog-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/15\/asylum-costs-set-to-take-up-fifth-of-uks-shrunken-aid-budget-watchdog-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum costs set to take up fifth of UK\u2019s shrunken aid budget, watchdog warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1IBcnm.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Government building stock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UK asylum costs are set to take up a fifth of the Government\u2019s shrunken aid budget, leaving as little as 0.24% of gross national income for global development, a watchdog has warned.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/asylum-costs-set-to-take-up-fifth-of-uk-s-shrunken-aid-budget-watchdog-warns\/ar-AA1IBeHo?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6875f11fcb53430ab20dc9f95da9f492&amp;ei=58\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>UK asylum costs are set to take up a fifth of the Government\u2019s shrunken aid budget, leaving as little as 0.24% of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/asylum-claims.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77409,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77408\/revisions\/77409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}