UK paying £56,000 for each person returned to France under ‘one in one out’ scheme
Summary
The UK government’s “one in, one out” scheme is costing about £56,000 to send each person back to France. The deal exchanges people arriving in small boats with asylum seekers applying legally to enter the UK, but France wants to replace the scheme with a wider EU-UK agreement.Key Facts
- The UK sends one person back to France for each asylum seeker legally accepted.
- About 1,400 people have been returned to France since August 2025.
- Each return costs roughly £56,000, according to the UK Home Secretary.
- The cost is roughly the same or less than housing someone in a hotel for a year.
- France wants to end the current bilateral deal and replace it with an EU-UK agreement.
- The UK’s plans to continue the EU-wide Dublin agreement post-Brexit have been rejected by EU leaders.
- The scheme faces challenges such as limited detention space and difficulty increasing removals.
- Some rejected asylum seeker families have been offered up to £40,000 to voluntarily leave the UK.
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