Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments were made to asylum seekers who were not entitled to state benefits in (1) 2000, (2) 2010, and (3) 2014.

The Home Office does not recognise or use the term ‘state benefits’. We have therefore provided information on payments made under Section 4 and Section 95 of the Asylum Act 1999.

Disaggregating the costs of subsistence payments made under S4 in 2010 would incur disproportionate costs.

Disaggregating the S4 or S95 costs in 2000 would incur disproportionate costs.