UK Border Agency
Home Department
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to the UK Border Agency has been of the Country Escort contract in each of the last 10 years.
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
The UK Border Agency does not hold information relating to the Country Escort contract prior to 2006. The following table outlines the cost of the contract from 2006:
| Cost (£) | |
| 2010-11 | 51,683,916 |
| 2009-10 | 45,712,305 |
| 2008-09 | 42,330,850 |
| 2007-08 | 36,947,442 |
| 2006-07 | 35,492,843 |
Information relating to the cost of the contract from 2011-12 onwards can be found at the following link:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/about-us/transparency/transparency-spend/