Asylum

(asked on 11th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual cost to the public purse is for (a) housing of and (b) weekly payments to people who have had their asylum application rejected and their dependents under Section 95 and Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, in the most recent period for which data is available.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 21st September 2020

Data is published on a quarterly basis with the latest information covering until 31st June 2020. The next quarterly figures are due to be released in November 2020

Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential so we do not provide this information, however, total asylum spends are published as part of transparency data https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data

These figures are not broken down into those that have had their asylum claim rejected. This information is not readily accessible and would require a manual search.

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