Bungling Home Office admits catalogue of costly errors including mistakenly reimbursing migrants £19million that they can't claw back

Officials gave incorrect refunds totalling at least £18.7million to migrants who had paid a surcharge towards the NHS, the Home Office's annual report showed.


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