NEARLY £1million has been wasted on old planes to be used in the failed Rwanda migrants scheme.

Home Office chiefs splashed out £671,000 on fuselages to be used in training for removals.

Migrants in a small boat at sea.The controversial scheme was axed by Labour last July

Since the controversial scheme was axed, taxpayers face another £268,000 bill for having them kept in storage — by the firm that originally supplied them.

The total bill for just this part of the doomed plan, scrapped by Labour last July, is £939,000.

Three old Airbus fuselages were bought for Border Force officers to practice getting migrants on flights to Africa .

They were set up in a film studio hangar — used for Netflix competition show Squid Game: The Challenge , Batman blockbusters and a Rihanna video.

The hangar at Cardington Airfield, Beds, was hired for training for 15 months until the end of last year at a cost of £6,425,285 — meaning the facility was unused for at least six months.

The plane bodies were briefly used for training but have been kept at Cotswold Airport, Gloucs , since November.

Contract details between the Home Office (Immigration Enforcement Team) and Air Salvage International show the firm is to be paid £268,110 for “removal and storage of modified aircraft fuselages for Use of Force training”;.

Air Salvage boss Mark Gregory said they would be held in storage until the Government found a new location for them.

The Home Office said the storage deal had been “extended”; in November.

Interior of Rwanda deportation flight training facility.Nearly £1million has been wasted on old planes to be used in the failed Rwanda migrants scheme