Question follow-through · 12328
Undocumented Migrants: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of irregular migration in the next five years.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 1 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Undocumented Migrants: English Channel · 4 Nov 2024
- Immigration: Arrests and Prosecutions · 4 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
1 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of irregular migration in the next five years.
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
The costs of the asylum system are kept under constant review and are published on an annual basis.Decisions made by this government since being in office are estimated to save £7 Billion in Net Present Value (NPV) over the next 10 years.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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