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Development Aid: Asylum

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 12 March 2025UIN 34580

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the overseas aid budget has been spent in the context of housing for asylum seekers in the UK in each of the last three years.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

In-donor refugee costs are published each year in the Statistics on International Development (SIDs). 2024 figures will be published in the Spring 2025 provisional SIDs publication.

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