Written Question·Home Office·UIN 5435

Asylum: Costs and Income

Tabled: 11 September 2024
Answered: 8 October 2024

Question

Nick Timothy

Conservative — West Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the lifetime fiscal (a) cost of and (b) income generated by people granted asylum in the UK.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
As has been the case under successive governments, there is no published estimate available of the requested information.