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He warned that British taxpayers should not be paying for “leaving gifts” for failed asylum seekers. Mr Anderson wrote on X: “£40,000 for breaking into Britain. The Home Secretary has announced a trial scheme where families of failed asylum seekers will be offered up to £40,000 as an incentive to leave the UK.

“This is disgraceful. Taxpayers’ money should not be used to pay for leaving gifts for people who broke into our country illegally. I’ve written to the Home Secretary to express my opposition to this shameful idea.”

The Home Secretary outlined migration reforms in a speech on Thursday.

Ms Mahmood announced that some failed asylum seekers will be offered an “increased incentive payment” of £10,000 per person and up to £40,000 per family to leave Britain under a pilot scheme.

She said: “This Government will now pilot a similar model for families who are failed asylum seekers, a small number of whom will now be offered an increased incentive payment of £10,000 per person and up to a maximum of £40,000 per family.”

She said the move would bring a “significant saving” to the taxpayer if they prove effective.

She added: “Where a voluntary removal is refused, we will escalate to an enforced removal for those who can be returned to their safe home country.

“We are now consulting on precisely how the removal of families with children must take place in a way that is humane and effective. For too long, families who have failed their claims have known that we are not enforcing our rules, which created a perverse incentive to make a Channel crossing with children in a small boat it.”