Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2023 to Question 202263 on Asylum, if he will disaggregate the data on the geographic spread of asylum seekers in receipt of support into (a) legacy backlog and (b) flow cases.

Information on asylum support location is held on a separate system to the caseworking information regarding backlog and flow cases. Combining these datasets can currently only be done at disproportionate cost. Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.