The Government is set to spend millions of pounds over the next three years to feed asylum seekers with ready meals and snacks.
The Home Office is seeking a contract to provide migrants, arriving on Channel boats or other ways, with prepared meals, sandwiches, snacks, crisps and drinks when they are assessed for asylum.
The contract which is mainly targeted at "asylum intake" centres in Croydon, Kent and Belfast.
However, it could also include other sites across Britain.
The asylum intake units are controlled by the Home Office for initial screening and registering asylum seekers who have entered the UK and are seeking asylum.
The Home Office, in the tender document, said the contract would begin on January 2026 and run for two years until January 2028.
There is an option to extend it for a further year.
It includes catering services, snacks, prepared meals and sandwiches as well as vegetables, fruits and nuts, labelling machines, and meal preparation and delivery services.
The Home Office is looking for a contract for at least two years to feed asylum seekers while processing their claims
| GETTYWhile there is no cost in the tender documents, bids are welcomed as of next month.
Industry estimates suggest it could cost between £1.2million and £2.4million per year.
That would be to provide catering services and two meals a day to about 40,000 migrants.
It comes as more than 50,000 migrants have crossed the Channel since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister last summer.
More than 50,000 people have crossed the Channel since Sir Keir Starmer came into leadership last summer
| GETTYShadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the Home Office was "only have to budget millions to feed and house asylum seekers because of Labour's borders crisis".
"The Labour Government promised to stop Channel crossings and end the use of asylum hotels," Mr Philp said.
"Yet record numbers of dinghies full of illegal migrants arriving on our shores - who are then housed and fed at taxpayers' expense.
"This is an insult to hard-working families who are struggling to make ends meet."
Mr Philp said it was "only the Conservatives, with our Deportation Bill" which has a credible plan to "end this madness by ending the Human Rights Act for immigration matters".
He added it would allow the Government to deport all illegal immigrants "immediately upon arrival".
"Then they won't need to be fed or housed," Mr Philp said.
According to the Telegraph, the taxpayer has been providing clothes and shoes to Channel migrants at about £3,000 a day.
The free clothes, given to men, women and children, include puffer coats, hats and gloves in winter - costing nearly £4million over the past three years.
The Home Office has stocked thousands of different sizes and shapes to replace all the migrants' clothing upon arrival.
It says it is necessary as the migrants are often soaked by sea water and "occasionally" splashed with fuel and potentially posing a safety risk.
The UK is legally responsible, under international law, to provide support for those who are considered as refugees.
GB News has contacted the Home Office for comment.