questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost to the public purse is of an asylum seeker.
answerText: The Home Office’s publicly available transparency data sets out the annual costs of asylum support. The most recent data, covering the year 2023/24, can be found here:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q4-2024.
heading: Asylum: Costs