Spending on consultants by the Home Office has rocketed by 2,000 per cent under Labour to almost £150m a year.
The total amount lavished on management consultants and other so-called experts over the past decade is £545m.
One of the major reasons for the expenditure is trying to get the controversial ID cards project of the ground.
The cash could otherwise have been spent putting 10,900 extra police on streets for a year.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, who unearthed the figures, said: “The Home Office has had its worst period in its 200-year history, stumbling from crisis to crisis.
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