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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2023-11-28more like thismore than 2023-11-28
answering body
Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Asylum: Finance more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was for (a) financial support and (b) accommodation for people (i) seeking asylum and (ii) arriving through other humanitarian routes in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority. more like this
tabling member constituency Harborough more like this
tabling member printed
Neil O'Brien more like this
uin 4251 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2023-12-04more like thismore than 2023-12-04
answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered. Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. The Home Office is currently spending around £8.3m per day on hotel accommodation. Total expenditure on asylum and humanitarian routes is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown which disaggregates the cost of financial support and accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees by local authority.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Newark remove filter
answering member printed Robert Jenrick more like this
question first answered
less than 2023-12-04T17:26:18.387Zmore like thismore than 2023-12-04T17:26:18.387Z
answering member
4320
label Biography information for Robert Jenrick more like this
tabling member
4679
label Biography information for Neil O'Brien more like this