Commemorations at the concentration camp began earlier when Poland’s president Andrzej Duda joined Auschwitz survivors.

Kate joined her husband the Prince of Wales at Guildhall in central London on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The forecast comes despite the Government revising down its capacity targets in an action plan released late last year.

Minister Dara Calleary said he understood people’s ‘frustration’ and that authorities were ‘working as hard as possible’.