The taxpayer picked up a bill of more than £300 million last year to support failed asylum seekers who should have been removed from the country, spending watchdogs report today.
The National Audit Office says most of this sum was spent looking after an estimated 18,500 families with dependent children who are entitled to continuing support until they leave the country.
A further £285 million was spent to support the voluntary repatriation of some failed asylum seekers or to enforce the deportation of others
Link : http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma...19.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/19/ixnewstop.html
On the other hand a woman whose life is being threatened by breast
cancer has been refused treatment of a drug that may save her life.
After Kasia Boddy's cancer was diagnosed four months ago, her doctors wanted her treated with Herceptin.
But Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge said it had not been licensed to treat early breast cancer by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
In a statement the hospital said until it had been, they would not be offering this treatment to patients.
Link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4735473.stm
I know if it was my wife that was dying of cancer and she had the chance
of survival with a new drug and it was refused, I would be a little
bit angry.
The National Audit Office says most of this sum was spent looking after an estimated 18,500 families with dependent children who are entitled to continuing support until they leave the country.
A further £285 million was spent to support the voluntary repatriation of some failed asylum seekers or to enforce the deportation of others
Link : http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma...19.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/19/ixnewstop.html
On the other hand a woman whose life is being threatened by breast
cancer has been refused treatment of a drug that may save her life.
After Kasia Boddy's cancer was diagnosed four months ago, her doctors wanted her treated with Herceptin.
But Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge said it had not been licensed to treat early breast cancer by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
In a statement the hospital said until it had been, they would not be offering this treatment to patients.
Link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4735473.stm
I know if it was my wife that was dying of cancer and she had the chance
of survival with a new drug and it was refused, I would be a little
bit angry.