Asylum: Finance
(asked on 9th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have received financial support in each local authority area in England and Wales in 2015.
Support may be provided under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute until their asylum claim is determined. Section 95 support can be provided as both accommodation and subsistence, or accommodation or subsistence only.
The following table shows the number of asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support in each local authority in England and Wales as at the end of March 2015. The data include dependants in receipt of support but excludes unaccompanied asylum seeking children supported by Local Authorities.
The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of section 95 support, broken down by Local Authority, are published on a quarterly basis by the Home Office in Table as_16_q of the Immigration Statistics release .The latest publication (Immigration statistics, January to March 2015 ) is available on the Gov.UK website: