About Migrants Near Me
An independent platform tracking UK government spending on asylum accommodation using official data and verified sources.
Purpose
UK asylum accommodation costs were estimated at around £4.7 billion across 2023/24 in the National Audit Office’s 2024 investigation into asylum accommodation, with hotel placements alone costing roughly £8 million per night at peak. Those figures sit across the Home Office, Border Force, NHS, and Ministry of Justice, which makes the full cost hard for any one taxpayer to see in context.
Migrants Near Me aggregates those primary sources — NAO value-for-money reports, quarterly Home Office immigration statistics, parliamentary written answers, and verified news investigations — into a single map and cost counter. Where NAO put the total awaiting-decision population at around 133,000 (Sept 2024), we show that in context alongside per-day, per-hotel, and per-region spend.
Our goal is to give every UK taxpayer the information they need to understand where their money goes. Transparency is the foundation of accountability.
What We Do
Real Time Spending Tracker
A live counter showing government expenditure on the asylum system based on official annual figures, broken down to the second.
Interactive UK Map
Every known asylum accommodation site plotted on a map with cost data, bed counts, and source citations.
Community Contributions
Verified users can submit location updates. Every submission goes through a verification process before appearing on the map.
Alternative Spending Analysis
We show what the same money could fund: NHS nurses, GP appointments, houses, and cancer treatments. All figures sourced from official NHS and ONS data.
Data Principles
- ✓Source everything. Every figure links back to its original government publication, NAO report, or verified news source.
- ✓Official data first. Home Office, NAO, ONS, and NHS England data takes priority. News sources corroborate only.
- ✓Show the working. Our methodology explains every calculation and states all assumptions.
- ✓Correct errors openly. If something is wrong, we fix it and note the change. Accuracy over speed.
Privacy
We use essential cookies for security and advertising cookies to fund the platform. No personal data is sold or shared. Location contributions are anonymous and voluntary. See our Privacy Policy for full details on data collection.
Full details in our Privacy Policy.
Contact
For corrections, data enquiries, or press requests:
contact@migrantsnearme.com