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.