£10,000 for deported homeless EU migrants

Some homeless people could be given compensation of about £10,000 after the Home Office wrongly threatened to deport them.

EU migrants who were picked up under a previous Government policy to use rough sleeping as grounds for removal, could make claims after the approach was declared unlawful by the High Court last year.

Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that 698 homeless EU nationals were removed from the country during the year to May 2017.

Around 45 European citizens are thought to be pursuing compensation.