Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department is spending on accommodation for asylum applicants (a) awaiting an initial decision, (b) awaiting a final decision and (c) who have been refused asylum but are receiving support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated in specific types of accommodation, the duration of their receipt of support or the number at specific stages of the asylum process. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts.