PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(13 January 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's transparency data entitled Breakdown of Home Office costs associated with the MEDP with Rwanda and the Illegal Migration Act 2023, Table 1: Home Office spend on the MEDP and the IMA, published on 2 December 2024, if she will provide a breakdown of the Other fixed costs referenced in that table.

Asked by:
Nick Timothy (Conservative)

In reference to this published document Breakdown of Home Office costs associated with the MEDP with Rwanda and the Illegal Migration Act 2023, a further breakdown of row 4 of Table 1 ‘other fixed costs’ is as follows:

Other Fixed Costs (£m)*	2022/23	2023/24	24/25 (to June 24)	Total
Costs incurred to design and develop the digital, IT and data systems required to operationalise the MEDP and IMA	0	122	12	134
Programme and legal costs	0	50	7	57
Cost of staff working directly on MEDP & IMA policies	0	61	26	87
Total	0	233	45	278

* Figures are to the nearest £1 million

Please note the figures in Table 1 of the referenced publication on gov.uk were rounded to the nearest £5 million either way for technical reasons.

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