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Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how is the value of the financial sum added weekly to an Aspen card calculated.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
2 May 2025
Target answer date
29 Apr 2025
Answer
9 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how is the value of the financial sum added weekly to an Aspen card calculated.

  2. 29 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 May 2025

    Answer published

    The level of the allowance given to those supported under section 95 and section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 is reviewed each year to ensure it covers an asylum seekers’ essential living needs. Details of what is considered essential, can be ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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