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Development Aid

Commons · Question 53508 · Tabled 20 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 2 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 49372 on Development Aid, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on achieving planne

Answer

Answered by Stephen Doughty, 2 Jun 2025

The Home Secretary is committed to ensuring that asylum costs fall and has already acted. The government has taken measures to reduce the asylum backlog and reform the asylum accommodation system to end the use of expensive accommodation in the next Spend...