Written Question·Home Office·UIN 18952

Asylum

Tabled: 14 July 2026

Answered: 24 July 2026

Question

James McMurdock

Independent — South Basildon and East Thurrock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Part 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, what estimate has been made of the annual amount expected to be recovered through contributions from recipients of asylum support.

Answer

Anna Turley

The Immigration and Asylum Bill introduces the principle that, where a person has received taxpayer-funded asylum support and later becomes financially able to contribute towards those costs, it is right and fair that they should do so.Contribution levels...

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