PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Asylum (11 September 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual cost to the public purse is for (a) housing of and (b) weekly payments to people who have had their asylum application rejected and their dependents under Section 95 and Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, in the most recent period for which data is available.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

Data is published on a quarterly basis with the latest information covering until 31^st June 2020. The next quarterly figures are due to be released in November 2020

Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential so we do not provide this information, however, total asylum spends are published as part of transparency data https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data

These figures are not broken down into those that have had their asylum claim rejected. This information is not readily accessible and would require a manual search.

Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
21 September 2020