Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, whether the costs of providing additional housing for recently arrived migrants is included in overseas aid totals.

In 2021/22 40% of the budget that provides support for destitute asylum seekers of all ages is classified as Official Development Assistance expenditure.

The costs of additional housing used to provide shelter to accommodate recently arrived migrants who claim asylum can be treated as Official Development Assistance for the first 12 months from arrival and where that migrant is shown to be from an eligible country.