Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the (a) Chief Constable and (b) Police and Crime Commissioner on the additional policing costs relating to the Penally asylum seekers' centre in Pembrokeshire.

The Home Office has worked closely with Dyfed-Powys Police and we have provided £2.5m of funding in relation to the additional costs of policing the site.