Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 August 2022 to Question 39956 on Asylum: Applications, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the New Plan for Immigration on processing costs for asylum applications; and if she will make an estimate of how those costs will change in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

We do not hold nor calculate the costs for this on a calendar year basis, nor do we have an estimate of costs for 2022/23, as the calculation of costs are collated from across the Home Office, once a year only, after the annual accounts have been published. This is still ongoing for 2021/22, and they will be available in the autumn. The Home Office routinely publish information on the total cost and breakdown of asylum costs and productivity and can be found at Asy_04: Immigration and protection data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).