Thousands of pounds are being spent on hiring staff to teach ballooncraft, cake decorating and floristry to migrants awaiting deportation.
A hairdressing tutor, hospitality and floristry tutor, painting and decorating tutor and gym manager are among the 32 jobs currently available at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre – a male-only facility.
Salaries for the full-time roles are over £30k a year – with the gym manager role being advertised for £38,873.66 per annum.
The combined yearly spend of all the jobs has been considered an insult to tax payers, with Tory ministers warning: ‘The Government has lost the plot.’
The roles first appeared on the Government’s Find A Job website last week and are still available.
However, Home Office Minister Seema Malhorta said the department had asked for the roles to be scrapped as they ‘don’t believe all these roles are necessary’.
The jobs have been advertised by Mitie – a facilities firm that is required to provide recreational services to detainees as part of its 2014 £290million contract with the Home Office.
The gym manager is expected to ‘promote and deliver meaningful gym activities within the sports halls, gym areas and courtyards’.
Meanwhile the hospitality and florist tutor will ‘proactively promote, design, as necessary, and deliver workshops in relevant creative skills including Floristry, cake decorating, ballooncraft, arts and craft activities’.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick told The Sun: ‘The Government has lost the plot. They’re so addicted to providing freebies that they’re even handing them out to foreign criminals when they’re about to be chucked out the county. It’s insane.
‘These jobs should be withdrawn immediately and replaced by security officers that can increase deportations.’
Two immigration centres, Harmondsworth and Colnbrook, are near Heathrow to allow easy transfers to planes.
Harmondsworth can house up to 658 people and Colnbrook 300 – migrants, including asylum seekers can be housed there while their immigration status is resolves.
Home Office figures show 1,808 people are currently in UK detention centres.
And according to the latest available estimates, Britain has the highest population of illegal migrants in Europe.
This week, Nigel Farage vowed to deport as many as 600,000 people if he wins power after detaining them in ‘large-scale raids’ – an echo of the crackdown by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Donald Trump.
Mr Farage used his major speech to promise as many as five deportation flights taking off every day and returns deals sought with countries around the world, including even Taliban-run Afghanistan.
He described the arrival of vast numbers of migrants across the Channel as an ‘invasion’ and accused the UK and French governments of ‘colluding in their support of criminal activity’ because Border Force give life jackets back to the French so they can be re-used in future crossings.
Mr Farage claimed he was the ‘last shot’ at illegal migration being stopped after the ‘total failure’ of Rishi Sunak’s ‘stop the boats’ plan and the fact that Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘smash the gangs’ was ‘never ever going to work’.
Illegal migration has become the biggest issue in British politics amid a series of anti-migrant protests outside asylum hotels.
Regular protests have been held outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex after an asylum seeker housed there was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl last month. Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu has denied the offence and has been on trial this week.
Last week, more than 30 protests under the Abolish Asylum System slogan were held in towns and cities including Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, Liverpool, Wakefield, Newcastle, Horley, Canary Wharf, Aberdeen and Perth in Scotland, and Mold in Wales.
A separate batch of protests were organised by Stand Up to Racism in Bristol, Cannock, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wakefield, Horley and Long Eaton in Derbyshire.
The latest Home Office figures show another 871 migrants arrived in 13 boats over the Bank Holiday weekend, taking the total since Labour won the election to more than 52,000.