Home Department written question – answered at on 19 January 2012.
Priti Patel
Conservative, Witham
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to the public purse of running the Morton Hall immigration removal centre was in the latest period in which figures are available.
Damian Green
The Minister for Immigration
Morton Hall is in its first year of operation as an immigration removal centre since it was previously used as a female prison under the Ministry of Justice.
The estimated cost to the public purse in the financial year 2011-12 is the £10,680,000 which UK Border Agency will pay to the National Offender Management Service under the service level agreement for the running of Morton Hall immigration removal centre. The UK Border Agency will also pay £491,244 to the National Offender Management Service in 2011-12 for the start-up costs.
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