Written Question·Home Office·UIN 96318

Undocumented Migrants: Finance

Tabled: 2 December 2025
Answered: 11 December 2025

Question

Mr Louie French

ConservativeOld Bexley and Sidcup

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to cease the purchasing of non-essential items, including vapes, for illegal migrants.

Answer

Alex Norris
The Home Office does not purchase vapes for people held in immigration detention, and no public money is spent on the purchase of these or any other goods sold at immigration removal centres.Following a comprehensive review of asylum support, we have take...

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