Asylum: Northern Ireland

(asked on 27th April 2026) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been provided to Northern Ireland councils for asylum dispersal, integration, English language support, advice services, community hubs or related services in each year since 2019-20.


Answered by
Alex Norris Portrait
Alex Norris
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 29th April 2026

The Home Office provides funding to Local Authorities through several grant agreements, including those for Asylum, Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children, and former Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children Care Leavers. However, we do not publicly publish grant payment levels by individual local authority. For Northern Ireland, these funds are paid directly to the Northern Ireland Executive Office, which is then responsible for distributing them to each area as they see fit.

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