Question follow-through · 48628
Asylum: Maternity Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many one-off maternity payments of £300 have been granted to asylum seekers whose baby was (a) due in 11 weeks or less and (b) under 6 months old.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many one-off maternity payments of £300 have been granted to asylum seekers whose baby was (a) due in 11 weeks or less and (b) under 6 months old.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
The data held centrally by the Home Office on support for asylum seekers does not disaggregate payments according to the age of the children or due to the date of their mothers. However, the Home Office publishes information on overall asylum expenditure ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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