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Asked by Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 7 July 2025UIN 62767

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60629 on Undocumented Migrants: Lancashire, if she will make an estimate of the cost of answering that Question.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Guide to Parliamentary Work, which is published online and available here, sets out that there is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850; the limit does not apply to oral questions.

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