Two consultants earned more than £1.1m for work on Bicester's aborted asylum centre, new figures have revealed.

The fees form part of £28m spent by the Home Office on the abandoned proposals for a 750-bed centre between Arncott and Piddington.

The plans were ditched in 2005 without a single brick being laid.

The new figures sparked outrage among protesters who spent their own money hiring lawyers to fight the plans and conducted fact-finding missions at asylum centres in the UK and France.

The Public Accounts Committee criticised the Home Office for its handling of the scheme and the loss of £29m.

Chairman Edward Leigh said: "The Home Office project to build on a site at Bicester embodied lack of foresight, poor business planning and a startling absence of common sense.

"No development has taken place on the site, which is lying semi-derelict, and the taxpayer has lost some £29m."

Arncott resident Gwen McEwan, 66, said: "For them to make that amount of money is disgusting.

"No one put money into our pocket to fight these badly thought out proposals. It just makes me so angry."

The figures show that £614,300 was paid to a consultant financial adviser for less than three years work. The Home Office also paid a consultant procurement adviser £497,900.

It said it hired the pair - who have not been identified - from an agency because it did not have suitable workers in-house.