Question follow-through · 12843

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of housing asylum seekers who have arrived on small boats in (a) hotels and (b) other locations since January 2020.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 5 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 11 Nov 2024
Answer: 15 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel · 6 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

5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of housing asylum seekers who have arrived on small boats in (a) hotels and (b) other locations since January 2020.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and subsistence support whilst their application for asylum is being considered.Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation is published ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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