Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

(asked on 24th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum seekers housed in temporary accommodation in (a) Tamworth district, (b) Lichfield district, (c) Staffordshire and (d) England who have been refused leave to remain in the UK since January 2021 remain in the UK as of 22 February 2023.


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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 2nd March 2023

The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets Asylum and resettlement datasets – GOV.UK under the document Asylum seekers in receipt of support (second edition): Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The Home Office publish data on the number of people who have been granted and refused asylum in the UK and this can be found in the Asy_04 tab of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:

Immigration statistics data tables, year ending December 2022 - GOV.UK (List of tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)).

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