Question follow-through · 2472
Asylum: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse of the asylum system was in each year since 2005; and what estimate she has made of the cost for 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 37 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Migrants: Detainees · 10 Sept 2024
- Asylum: Applications · 10 Sept 2024
- Brook House Immigration Removal Centre · 17 Oct 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse of the asylum system was in each year since 2005; and what estimate she has made of the cost for 2024.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
Data on asylum costs has been disclosed each year since 2013-14 in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts. However, data for Financial Year 2024-25 is not yet published and will be available when the 2024-25 Annual Report and Accounts is published. ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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