UK overseas aid budget faces £900m raid to pay for housing asylum seekers

With the amount spent on refugees and asylum seekers this year on course to hit 3.6bn, the sum available for international projects must be cut again, warns thinktank

Ministers have been warned that 900m will have to be raided from UK overseas aid projects to meet the costs of supporting asylum seekers in Britain this year.

Projections seen by the Observer show that the amount of overseas aid set to be spent in the UK on refugees and asylum seekers this year is still on course to reach 3.6bn, despite a big fall in the costs of housing people from Ukraine.