Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average annual cost to public funds of (1) adult asylum applicants, and (2) unaccompanied children seeking asylum.
Asylum costs are published as part of the Home Office transparency data https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019. Please see table attached.
The information is not broken down to provide individual costs for asylum applicants and unaccompanied asylum seeking children.