Question follow-through · 34580

Development Aid: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the overseas aid budget has been spent in the context of housing for asylum seekers in the UK in each of the last three years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 28 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 4 Mar 2025
Answer: 12 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the overseas aid budget has been spent in the context of housing for asylum seekers in the UK in each of the last three years.
4 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
In-donor refugee costs are published each year in the Statistics on International Development (SIDs). 2024 figures will be published in the Spring 2025 provisional SIDs publication.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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