To answer to the police for the huge spending – VG

– There is money being paid for places in reception centres that are not being used, but I don’t see quite how we’d avoided it, ” says UDI director Frode Blame.

VG has reviewed the public spending after the asylbølgen in 2015 and shown how the nok 6.3 billion is spent on mottaksbransjen the last 20 months.

Since January 2015, the UDI has paid 1.4 billion for the empty place, and still runs millions out to the empty reception.

But UDI director Frode Blame don’t lie awake at night.

I feel confident in the decisions we took, out from the assumption on the times we took the decisions, says the Blame to the VG.

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Costs will go down again

It has been his clearly difficult years as the UDI-boss. They saw not the great flyktningstrømmen come, and may begin a frenetic search for new refugee reception centres. So, it came as abruptly as the asylstrømmen to Norway suddenly stopped.

On gigantmottaket Forus in Stavanger pays the UDI continued for 1,000 places in reception centres, even if it is on Friday only lived 46 asylum seekers there.

Costs will go down again, to say it like that. The top is reached in 2016 because large parts of the ankomstene was at the end of last year. The top on the cost side for receiving and processing is in 2016, says Blame.

First there were too few reception centres, it is now for many. In august announced the UDI that the 7000 places in reception centres must be disregarded, today announced that they will lay down the new 3800 place. But the reception has three or four-month period of notice and it takes time to get away the expensive and empty seats. Forus in Stavanger have any contract to november.

– I think that we are getting built down the capacity, we use less money, we supply money back to the treasury. There is money being paid for places in reception centres that are not being used, but I don’t see quite how we’d avoided it. For we can not conclude contracts with them to operate the reception, without giving them security for a few months, says UDI director.

– Not so much criticism as the “bits”

Although asylankomstene had fallen dramatically in our, dare not to Blame to downsize the capacity of the reception centres. They retained it, and were out of 2000 slots in the end of may, and took millionregningen.

20. June could be the VG report that is 12,000 seats in the Norwegian reception centres stood empty.

Blame says he senses that they get criticism, but that it is not so much criticism, he seems “bits”.

I think bites, is criticism where I feel that “yes, we did, in fact, a great error of judgment here, this, we should have done differently”, says Blame.

the UDI feared in our a new storinnrykk of asylum seekers. The flyktningruten between Libya and Italy is still our open, that summer usually is toppmånedene for asylum seekers to Norway. And that there were still hundreds of thousands of unregistered asylum seekers around Europe, which could set the course towards Norway.

But there was only a few hundred.

during one week in november last year, in fact more asylum seekers than it has done in all the years together.

Pay for blank receipt

– I do not feel that we get so much criticism for the opinions that make the behind the we do. However, I think the fact that people are interested in that we will pay for the reception which is halvtomme or almost completely empty, ” he says – and adds:

– When we build down mottakskapasitet, we will clear the reception and the last few weeks they are almost completely empty, even though we still pay for them. So it will be in a nedbyggingsfase. It’s just not that many other ways to do it.

EXPENSIVE, AND of GREAT RECEIPT: Reception at Forus in Stavanger has so far cost 180 million. On Friday was 954 of the 1000 slots available. Photo: NTB Scanpix

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– it hurts to think of how much money this has cost?

– I think that it is a part of the cost of dealing with a asylapparat, it to build up and build down. We can’t create the systems, when there is so great uncertainty, that manages to keep the cost right at any time, I don’t think it is possible.

He shows to how the situation would have been if the UDI had taken down the capacity further, also there had suddenly come a new storinnrykk in the fall so that they had to start “to flurry with expensive akuttplasser again.”

” I think we had gotten quite severe criticism and very much more powerful criticism, in fact, if it had happened. Because of what happened in the last year, says the Blame to the VG.

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