Asylum: Maternity Payments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many one-off maternity payments of £300 have been granted to asylum seekers whose baby was (a) due in 11 weeks or less and (b) under 6 months old.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The data held centrally by the Home Office on support for asylum seekers does not disaggregate payments according to the age of the children or due to the date of their mothers. However, the Home Office publishes information on overall asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report all relevant payments are included in this data.
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