Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse of the asylum system was in each year since 2005; and what estimate she has made of the cost for 2024.

Data on asylum costs has been disclosed each year since 2013-14 in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts. However, data for Financial Year 2024-25 is not yet published and will be available when the 2024-25 Annual Report and Accounts is published. Data for asylum costs was not published prior to Financial Year 2013-14.

Please refer to the below page references which are available through the following link:

Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Financial Year 2023-24 page 243 (page 247 on the PDF reader)

Financial Year 2022-23 page 244

Financial Year 2021-22 page 171

Financial Year 2020-21 page 159

Financial Year 2019-20 page 150

Financial Year 2018-19 page 135

Financial Year 2017-18 page 124

Financial Year 2016-17 page 115

Financial Year 2015-16 page 132 (page 133 on the PDF reader)

Financial Year 2014-15 page 124 (page 127 on the PDF reader)

Financial Year 2013-14 page 110 (page 127 on the PDF reader)