Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was for the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contracts in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.

The United Kingdom has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and other support whilst their application for asylum is being considered.

The costs of the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts (AASC) 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