Dominic Raab
Conservative, Esher and Walton
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
(1) how many refugees the Refugee Integration and Employment Service helped in (a) each year it was operational and (b) total;
(2) how much it cost to fund the Refugee Integration and Employment Service in (a) each year it was operational and (b) total.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
holding answer
The Refugee Integration and Employment Service (RIES) operated from
| Number | |
| 2008-09 | 5,021 |
| 2009-10 | 4,589 |
| 2010-11 | 2,854 |
The total number of refugees helped was 12,464.
The costs for each of the four financial years in which RIES operated were:
| £ | |
| 2008-09 | 2,742,593 |
| 2009-10 | 10,966,145 |
| 2010-11 | 9,264,978 |
| 2011-12 | 2,693,678 |
The total cost was £25,667,394.
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