Undocumented Migrants

(asked on 13th January 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's transparency data entitled Breakdown of Home Office costs associated with the MEDP with Rwanda and the Illegal Migration Act 2023, Table 1: Home Office spend on the MEDP and the IMA, published on 2 December 2024, if she will provide a breakdown of the Other fixed costs referenced in that table.


Answered by
Angela Eagle Portrait
Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 16th January 2025

In reference to this published document Breakdown of Home Office costs associated with the MEDP with Rwanda and the Illegal Migration Act 2023, a further breakdown of row 4 of Table 1 ‘other fixed costs’ is as follows:

Other Fixed Costs (£m)*

2022/23

2023/24

24/25 (to June 24)

Total

Costs incurred to design and develop the digital, IT and data systems required to operationalise the MEDP and IMA

0

122

12

134

Programme and legal costs

0

50

7

57

Cost of staff working directly on MEDP & IMA policies

0

61

26

87

Total

0

233

45

278

* Figures are to the nearest £1 million

Please note the figures in Table 1 of the referenced publication on gov.uk were rounded to the nearest £5 million either way for technical reasons.

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