Question follow-through · 12166
Asylum: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of Aspen cards was to the public purse in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 8 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Undocumented Migrants: Costs · 1 Nov 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
31 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of Aspen cards was to the public purse in each of the last five years.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute.The Home Office publishes information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts at HO annual...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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