Written Question·Home Office·UIN 191656

Asylum: Falmouth

Tabled: 28 June 2023

Answered: 5 July 2023

Named Day

Question

Luke Pollard

Labour (Co-op) — Plymouth Sutton and Devonport

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the potential cost to the public purse of housing asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge; and whether this cost can be broken down per asylum seeker.

Answer

Robert Jenrick

Cost information is prospective and commercially sensitive, and as such is not available to be released. The pressure on the asylum system from small boat arrivals has continued to grow and requires us to look at a range of accommodation options which are...

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