From rugby sessions to 'wellbeing shops' – Reform blows lid on six taxpayer-funded REWARDS for illegal migrants

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James Saunders

By James Saunders


Published: 18/06/2025

- 11:25

Updated: 18/06/2025

- 14:46

'Britons have had enough of coughing up for services and luxuries for people who shouldn't be here in the first place,' the TaxPayers' Alliance said

British taxpayers are being forced to pay for rugby training sessions and "digital inclusion workshops" for asylum seekers, a probe by Reform UK has found.

The party's "Doge" efficiency unit chief Zia Yusuf has shed light on a survey of migrant hotels by a healthcare provider in Wakefield - which he warned "will infuriate" readers.


The Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership's "engagement within asylum seeker accommodation hotels" asked migrants a list of questions to develop "a new service to help with your health and wellbeing".

The asylum seekers are asked what "activities" they would be interested in, in a bid to meet the "specific needs of some of our more vulnerable communities".

Zia Yusuf

Zia Yusuf has shed light on a survey of migrant hotels by a healthcare provider in Wakefield

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After a lengthy survey of the migrants - all men from the Middle East and East Africa - six "next steps" are identified:

  • An "onsite health inclusion service" running several days a week at each contingency accommodation;
  • One-stop shops to promote health and wellbeing;
  • "Turning Point Mental Health" group sessions;
  • Featherstone Rovers rugby sessions;
  • Behavioural psychologist reviews for mental health needs;
  • "Digital inclusion workshops".

Now, Yusuf has unleashed his fury.

"These are not 'customers'," he spat. "They are paid for by taxpayers, in many cases here illegally."

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After a lengthy survey of the migrants - all men from the Middle East and East Africa - six 'next steps' are identified

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He continued: "The worst part is that local taxpaying residents are never consulted. In fact, they are blocked from having a voice before people are deposited in their area.

"Yet, the 'health and wellbeing service' which taxpayers get is in total disrepair. It's unfairness verging on wickedness."

"It's time to put British people first," Yusuf vowed.

The ex-Reform chairman was joined in scorn by William Yarwood, media campaign manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance.

He told GB News: "It's outrageous that illegal migrants in hotels are treated like VIP 'customers' while taxpayers struggle daily.

"Locals haven't been asked, and yet they're forced to pick up the bill for whatever perks and wellbeing services will be provided.

"Britons have had enough of coughing up for services and luxuries for people who shouldn't be here in the first place."

Migrant 'next steps' form

WAKEFIELD DISTRICT HEALTH AND CARE PARTNERSHIP

The attacks on the Wakefield survey come just days after Reform also revealed that Kent taxpayers spent thousands of pounds paying for illegal migrants to have TV licences and trips to the cinema.

But they follow a nationwide trend of asylum seekers being handed access to tax-funded health services.

In January, it emerged that migrants were handed "preferential medical treatment" and priority access to NHS facilities over British taxpayers.

At the time, Richard Tice said: "This sums up broken Britain. Whilst hard-working British people are waiting weeks for GP appointments and hours on end in A&E, illegals get to cut to the front of the queue."

And on Wednesday, ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe revealed he had asked the Department of Health "how many illegal migrants are accessing NHS care".

Lowe blasted: "Their response? "The Department does not hold or collect the information requested. WHY NOT?!"

GB News has approached Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership for comment.