To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was to his Department of the unpublished research paper Sizing the Illegally Resident Working Population. (129042)

The report into the ‘Sizing of the Illegally Resident Working Population’, released as part of Freedom of Information Act release FOI 3517, was technical in nature and the relevant aspects of this research are already contained in the published RDS online report 58/04—‘Sizing the illegal population in the UK’. The research cost £20,020.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to his Department was of the unpublished research paper Development of a study into the impact of Government policy on asylum flows. (129079)

The report ‘Development of a study into the impact of Government policy on asylum flows’ was released as part of Freedom of Information Act release FOI 3517. It was not previously published because it had not been developed into a report of publishable standard and there was not a sufficiently strong case for putting further resource into improving the report, given the rapid pace of change in asylum pressures and processes. The cost of the research is not available centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to his Department was of the unfinished report Enforcement of warrants. (129083)

The report into the ‘Enforcement of Warrants’ was released as part of Freedom of Information Act release FOI 3517 and was previously released with limited distribution. The research was produced internally and separately identifiable costs are not available.