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Undocumented Migrants: Costs

Asked by Patrick SpencerConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 21 October 2025UIN 80716

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the estimated annual cost of providing (a) healthcare, (b) education, and (a) welfare support to illegal migrants in (i) the UK and (b) in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency.

Answered by Alex Norris

The Home Office does not hold the information sought in these questions at the level of granularity requested.

Collating and verifying that information for the purposes of answering these questions could only be done at disproportionate cost and would also require the exclusion of any commercially sensitive material.

However the Home Office publishes all available information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab).

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