Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the accuracy of reports that the Government has agreed to pay a set amount of funding to Rwanda to cover case workers, legal advice, translators, accommodation, food and healthcare for the offshoring of asylum seekers; and whether she plans for that funding to come from the 0.5 per cent GNI ODA budget.

Funding for Migration and Economic Development Partnership has been agreed as part of Home Office settlement with HMT. It is not from the GNI ODA budget.

Under this partnership the UK is investing an initial £120 million into the economic development and growth of Rwanda. Funding will also be provided to support the delivery of asylum operations, accommodation, and integration.

Every person’s needs are different, but we anticipate the amount would be comparable to processing costs incurred in the UK.