Methodology for section 95 support (shelter and cash support):<br />A daily unit cost is taken from the Home Office’s contract with providers. These cost figures are then applied to the adjusted daily stock asylum seekers figures to give an overall cost estimate for ODA-eligible support to asylum seekers receiving s95.<br />Methodology for section 98 support (emergency temporary support):<br />Expenditure is reported in its own dedicated account code so it can be extracted directly from the accounts so it represent actual expenditure rather than an estimate.<br />To exclude claimants from non-ODA countries, the same deduction as for s95 claimants from non-ODA countries is applied as a proxy on the well-founded assumption that the same proportion of s98 claimants as s95 are from ODA-eligible countries.<br />Methodology for support to UASC (shelter and other eligible provisions):<br />The estimated data is then used to generate total UASC support costs for Home Office by applying cost figures. Source of cost data is the UASC finance master spreadsheets used to calculate and record UASC funding to Local Authorities. There are individual finance spreadsheets for each Local Authority and for the two funding streams from which the relevant data to produce the estimated ODA expenditure figures are extracted. This is aligned with clarification 5 as only direct costs are attributed and are based on costs for individuals. UASC rarely move on to s95 support so there is little to no risk of double counting. Where it does, an application is re-submitted, and the data are removed from s95 calculations.<br />Methodology for education costs:<br />(1) Establish the number of asylum-seeking children eligible for education support. The UK uses s95 and UASC data stock figures as described above as the basis of the estimate. Only education of asylum seekers up to and including year 11 at secondary school (students aged 15-16 years old) is reported as ODA in line with the DAC clarifications. The asylum seeker figures are separated into early years, primary and secondary education according to age breakdowns of the three types of stock figures.<br />(2) A daily unit cost for each level of education is estimated.6 The unit costs are worked out by using the relevant year’s funding levels. These are used to estimate the average amount of funding per pupil split by early years, primary and secondary. The unit cost estimates for primary and secondary age are based on various assumptions, such as that all asylum-seeking children of primary and secondary age would attract deprivation pupil premium funding to their school, and those of primary age would attract PE and Sport Premium funding.<br />(3) Unit costs are then applied to the number of asylum seeker support days in each education level. This gives the total spend for each type of education support.<br />(4) Totals by education level are summed to give an estimate of the total UK estimated spend on education7 support for asylum-seeking children.<br />Methodology for health costs:<br />(1) Obtain the number of asylum seekers eligible for health support. The UK uses s95, UASC and s98 data as the basis of the estimate (see above subsections for extra detail on these data sources). The totals of these three types of asylum seekers are added together to give the total number of asylum seeker supported days.<br />(2) Average per head unit costs are then applied to the number of asylum seeker support days – this gives total spend. The unit cost is calculated by using the asylum seeker age profile to apply a specific age-related head costs to different age groups. This is then summed and used to calculate an average per head<br />Methodology for admin costs:<br />Expenditure is estimated and calculated based on ODA eligibility across cost centres. Relevant admin cost centres are extracted from the accounts. Assumptions are then applied for eligibility and costs are calculated as follows:<br />(1) Cost centres are separated into groups. Group A of cost centres relating to business areas whose work involves the early stages of the asylum process, so 100% of all costs have been included.<br />(2) Group B and C relate to business areas whose work covers both ODA and non-ODA-eligible work. The proportion of ODA-eligible asylum support payments in calculated as a proportion of the overall asylum support budget and applied to the costs in this category. We continue to use this 50% basis for all costs.<br />Methodology for resettlement programmes (VPRS/VCRS):<br />The support is largely delivered through Local Authorities which receive a standard grant per resettled person from the Home Office. Almost all costs are tariff-driven and paid through a recognised grant agreement with the providers. UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) systems log and provide data on all arrivals who are given a unique reference number. Claims are made by providers for their applicable tariff amount and referenced to specific individuals using their unique reference number. For those claims which are not tariff driven, details of expenses must be provided with the claim and a detailed analysis of whether these costs meet eligibility for payment as set out in UKVI policy is carried out.