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Written question asked by James Clappison (Conservative) on Monday, 7 January 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 9 January 2008. It was answered by Phil Woolas (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Asylum: Housing

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of providing (a) asylum support and (b) accommodation in asylum support in each year since 2000; how many units of accommodation were provided in each of those years; and what the cost of the National Asylum Support Service was in each year since its inception.
Answer

The table to this reply shows the cost from 2000-01 to 2006-07 of: Home Office expenditure on asylum support made available via the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) or its equivalent, including the administrative costs of NASS or its equivalent; total asylum support costs; and the cost of accommodation for asylum seekers.We are unable to provide information on the number of accommodation units provided because the data cannot be extracted without disproportionate cost.

Home Office expenditure on asylum support for asylum seekers 2000-01—2006-07
£million
Of which: Of which:
Home Office expenditure on asylum support¹ Support costs² Accommodation costs³
2000-01 783 750 470
2001-02 1,082 1,046 733
2002-03 1,124 1,092 640
2003-04 1,070 1,035 619
2004-05 854 814 499
2005-06 667 626 329
2006-07 550 515 260
¹ Represents Home Office expenditure on asylum support channelled through the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) or equivalent function. This includes actual support costs and related NASS, or equivalent, administration costs.
² Support costs cover accommodation and subsistence costs of persons in receipt of support under section 95, section 98 and section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. It also includes funding of support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and the costs of transporting asylum seekers to and from accommodation.
³ Excludes accommodation costs of unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
Note:
Years refer to financial years, April to March.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
483 c2217W; 177471
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Asylum Housing
Link
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