Asylum: Housing
(asked on 1st October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what the estimated cost per week is for each asylum seeker staying in an accommodation centre.
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 15th October 2020
Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, so we do not provide this information.
However total asylum spends are published as part of transparency data https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data
Data is published on a quarterly basis with the latest information covering until 30 June 2020. The next quarterly figures are due to be released in November 2020.