Question follow-through · 34161
Development Aid: Refugees
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing the Home Office with a (a) reduced and (b) flat cash settlement for in-donor refugee costs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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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
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing the Home Office with a (a) reduced and (b) flat cash settlement for in-donor refugee costs.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring that asylum costs fall and the Home Secretary has reduced in-donor refugee costs by taking action to reduce the asylum backlog and seeking to end the use of costly asylum hotels. We therefore anticipate further redu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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