Question follow-through · 26783
Asylum: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what modes of transport are used to transfer asylum seekers between accommodation sites within the UK; and what expenditure was incurred on (a) air transport, (b) rail transport, (c) coach transport,
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what modes of transport are used to transfer asylum seekers between accommodation sites within the UK; and what expenditure was incurred on (a) air transport, (b) rail transport, (c) coach transport,
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2026
Answer published
We do not report and hold data at this granularity and would only be obtainable at disproportionate cost. The Home Office publishes information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office annual report and accounts: 2024 to 2025 - GOV.UK - GOV.UK (opens in a...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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