Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the policy paper, New plan for immigration: legal migration and border control strategy, published by her Department on 20 July 2022, what estimate she has made of the potential costs to her Department of introducing the technologies proposed in the strategy; and what provisions have been made within her Department's current funding plans to meet those costs.

The Home Office has secured funding up until 2024/25 to deliver on Government priorities via the departmental Spending Review.

The commitments in the New Plan for Immigration: Legal Migration and Border Control Strategy will be funded through the Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) programme budget, which is included in the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP).

This funding continues to support work to deliver transformational change for all those who use the immigration system and cross the border.