Question follow-through · 7600

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the lifetime fiscal (a) cost of and (b) income generated by those granted asylum in the UK.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
9 Oct 2024
Answer
15 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the lifetime fiscal (a) cost of and (b) income generated by those granted asylum in the UK.

  2. 9 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    As has been the case under successive governments, there is no published estimate available of the requested information.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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