Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on private security firms for asylum seeker accommodation within the London Borough of Havering in each of the last five years.

Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information.

Total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts(opens in a new tab)