Border Force officials spend nearly £39,000 in taxpayers’ cash on Domino’s pizza for migrants

BORDER Force officials spent £38,962 in taxpayers’ cash at a Domino’s branch buying pizza for small boat migrants, figures show. Staff used government credit cards to pay for the grub over just five months last year. They stashed boxed-up pizzas into a van and took them to migrants — mostly young men — at Dover’s […]

BORDER Force officials spent £38,962 in taxpayers’ cash at a Domino’s branch buying pizza for small boat migrants, figures show.

Staff used government credit cards to pay for the grub over just five months last year.

Gary Stone

Boarder Force officials spent £38,962 in taxpayers’ cash at a Domino’s branch buying pizza for small boat migrants, figures have shown[/caption]

They stashed boxed-up pizzas into a van and took them to migrants — mostly young men — at Dover’s now-closed Tug Haven holding centre.

On one occasion last July, the Home Office’s Clandestine Operational Re­s­ponse Team bought 200 in one go.

Staff at the fast-food joint say they were “rushed off their feet” each time a wave of migrants arrived.

The total spent would buy 3,900 of the chain’s £9.99 medium pizzas, such as a Veggie Supreme or Texas BBQ.

Orders halted last December when a catering firm took over.

Alp Mehmet, chairman of MigrationWatch UK, said: “The fact that the Border Force is having to resort to fast-food takeaways is symptomatic of the large numbers arriving.

“What it points to is the need to stem the flow of dinghy-migrants.”

The Home Office said: “The asylum system is broken and is costing the taxpayer an eye-watering amount.

“Our New Plan for Immigration will fix this by breaking the business model of criminal gangs to prevent dangerous, unnecessary crossings.”

Last year 28,526 crossed the Channel in small boats.

More than 14,000 have made the journey so far this year