Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the money raised from the Immigration Skills Charge has been spent over the last five years.

Answered by Darren Jones - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

The Immigration Skills Charge is administered by the Home Office and is classified as Trust Statement income. Government departments are required to surrender all Trust Statement income to the Consolidated Fund (CF).

Receipts surrendered to the CF are not ring-fenced for any specific area of government spending but will be used towards general government expenditure, which includes funding for departments’ budgetary Supply Estimates approved by Parliament.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase economic productivity.

Answered by Tulip Siddiq - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)

Boosting productivity growth across the country is a key aim of this government’s growth mission. By reforming the economy and increasing productivity, we will drive up prosperity and living standards across the UK. Our Budget showed that this government has a robust, comprehensive strategy for boosting productivity, and we are taking the steps needed to make up for fourteen years of stagnant productivity growth, including introducing planning reforms, protecting record R&D funding and launching Skills England.

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The Home Office has a duty to provide housing and subsistence to asylum seekers who are awaiting a decision on their claim and are destitute.