Examination of Witness

Part of Nationality and Borders – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:10 pm on 23 September 2021.

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Photo of Paul Blomfield Paul Blomfield Labour, Sheffield Central 12:10, 23 September 2021

Thank you, High Commissioner, for taking the time to join us. To follow up on my colleague’s question about cost, I was looking through some figures from your Department of Home Affairs that suggested that the cost of the offshore programme was about $1 billion a year. Does that figure seem about right? Individually, the cost is just over $9,000 per day for every person held offshoreQ .