Found: These are published in the Home Office Annual Reports and Accounts.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the UK taxpayer has been since January 2020 of housing asylum seekers who have arrived on small boats in hotels and other locations.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The number of people arriving in the UK who require accommodation has reached record levels and has put our asylum system under incredible strain.

We have been clear that the use of hotels to house asylum seekers is unacceptable. There are currently more than 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels costing the UK taxpayer over £6 million a day.

The Home Office is making every effort to reduce our reliance on hotels through alternative forms of accommodation to limit the burden on the taxpayer.

As per standard practice, audited costs for the large accommodation sites will be published through the Home Office annual reports and accounts.

To reduce hotel use, asylum seekers will routinely share rooms with at least one person where appropriate. This will minimise the impact on communities while we stand up alternative sites.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff vacancies were there for the Border Force in each of the last five years.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The information requested could not be obtained without disproportionate cost. The link to Home Office annual reports and accounts which hold detail on staff costs is enclosed below:

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

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the cost of running the UK's border policy for each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth

Border Force does not hold the cost of running the UK’s border policy for each of the last 10 years in an easily accessible format.

However, I enclose the Home Office annual reports and accounts link below:

Home Office annual report and accounts, 2012 to 2013 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2014 to 2015 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2017 to 2018 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2018 to 2019 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2021 to Question 903227 on Ports: Scotland, what additional resources have been deployed by the Border Force at Scottish ports since the Northern Ireland Protocol came into effect on 1 January 2021.

Answered by Alister Jack - Secretary of State for Scotland

Information relating to the wider staffing in the Home Office including Border Force, for the year 2019-20 is below:

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2019 to 2020

The Home Office Annual reports and accounts for 2020 to 2021 will be published in due course.

Border Force regularly reviews its capacity plans and resources. Redeploying and recruiting staff where necessary to help meet and maintain service standards for individual services.

Border Force is confident that resources to meet anticipated overall operational requirements are in place with Border Force recruiting sufficient additional frontline staff and continuing to build staffing levels during 2020/2021.

Found: gross expenditure fell by £42 million from £ 462 million in 2018/19 to £420 million in 2020/21 , Home