lorna gordon, bbc news, banff and buchan. questions. among the thousands you have sent so far to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk, a number have been about the cost of a staging a national poll, especially at this time of year. 0ur reporter ben hunte has been trying to provide some answers. learning about spending cash carefully. something which this dad from aberdeenshire has been teaching his little girl. his question is all about money. how much does the government spend on general elections? and why is it so expensive? so, just how expensive are general elections? the budget for the last one was over £1a0 million. a huge cost is staffing. at this election, its estimated around eight million postal votes will be sent out. the average cost of every postal vote was £2.15 back in the 2015 election. while voting in person at a polling station back then cost £1.22 on average — nearly half the price. running elections is a huge logistical operation. it takes hours and hours of people in council offices dealing with paperwork, nominations

the banff the federal office for migration and refugees. does not comment on individual cases but the department head did respond to our question on whether the agency actually recommended hiding out in a huge city like lagos. but hideouts was put in quotation marks here. pushing for the answers and requirements that we have to check if we believe that international relocation is an alternative . that's the most important thing of course is that this new location has to be safe it has to be reachable and it must offer the person the possibility of earning a minimum life lee hood. and existence mean it. is a city of millions. lagos is located in the christian south of the country. so basically we can assume that it will be possible to find a place to live there and build up new contacts. fatima coren has brought the case to decide or where she and a colleague are attending a meeting of integra it's a network of organizations in germany that are active against f.p.m. they include plan international amnesty international in ms area or among ot

says the banff employees often the 5 western standards when they make decisions about african families a mistake he says because africans tend to be more strongly bound up in family and tribal structures women are generally associated with the family of her husband that is the case in both christian and muslim regions in the evening he finally gets around to reading the agency's rejection of the nigerian family's application . fetish. for the threat has been completely misrepresented in the decision either out of ignorance or out of malice and. the fact is that there is social pressure not just from the mother in law but in the entire area and ultimately in all of nigeria. so no matter where they are as long as it hasn't been wiped out and that will take decades in nigeria and the young daughters are directly at risk that they are being sent into certain danger and sooner or later a practice will take place a practice that is not allowed under german law or international law. and nish to. the gynecologist promises to send in britain comments on the rejection. 12 years ago he published