Question follow-through · 14776

Undocumented Migrants: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on (a) housing and (b) supporting individuals who entered the United Kingdom illegally in each of the last five years.

answeredRichard TiceHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 18 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 20 Nov 2024
Answer: 26 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Housing and planning

Undocumented Migrants: Expenditure · 9 Jan 2025

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

18 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on (a) housing and (b) supporting individuals who entered the United Kingdom illegally in each of the last five years.
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2024
Answer published
Overall asylum support costs are published in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts, which is available through the following link:Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)Data for Financial Year for 2024-25 will be published fo...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Non-crime Hate Incidents: Lincolnshire

19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents were recorded in Lincolnshire in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lincolnshire Police: Translation Services

19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Lincolnshire Police spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation services in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Deportation

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been deported (a) in total and (b) by nationality in each month since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Marriage: Relatives

13 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many first-cousin marriages were recorded in each of the last three years, broken down by the nationalities of the parties involved.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offences against Children: Deportation

8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to deport people with dual citizenship who are charged with child grooming offences.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Boston and Skegness

9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase police funding in Boston and Skegness constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hotels

9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure asylum seekers are no longer housed in hotels in Boston and Skegness constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders: Undocumented Migrants

9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle crimes committed by individuals who have entered the country illegally.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Undocumented Migrants: Expenditure

9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of providing public services including (a) healthcare, (b) education and (c) housing of migrants that have arrived via small boat cros

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Freedom of Information

29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse o

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Freedom of Information

29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests related to police forces in England and Wales; and if she will make an estimate of the annua

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ali Kololo

4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a review has been undertaken of the Metropolitan Police’s involvement in the case of Ali Kololo.