Asylum: Costs
(asked on 22nd January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average annual cost to public funds of (1) adult asylum applicants, and (2) unaccompanied children seeking asylum.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 5th February 2020
Asylum costs are published as part of the Home Office transparency data https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019. Please see table attached.
The information is not broken down to provide individual costs for asylum applicants and unaccompanied asylum seeking children.