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Whitehall 'should pick up bill for refugees'

Norfolk CC has called on the Government to pick up a £401,000 funding shortfall for the resettlement of 50 Syrian refugees in the county.

Norfolk CC has called on the Government to pick up a £401,000 funding shortfall for the resettlement of 50 Syrian refugees in the county.

A report to be considered by the county's policy and resources committee next week said the cost to the council of resettling the refugees would exceed £1.4m over seven years. 

The report added the Government's basic funding offer would only reach £1.026m for the 50 refugees Norfolk had agreed it could support.

Council leader Cllr Cliff Jordan said: ‘There are still negotiations going on, but the Government has asked us to do this so it should pay.'

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