Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 October 2023 to Question 202265 on Asylum, if he will make heat maps on the geographical distribution of asylum seekers available to hon. Members.

Heatmaps are shared with Local Authorities to provide an indication of the number of decisions and therefore cessations that could flow through down to LA level because of the increase in decisions made this year.  The data only provides a snapshot in time and is heavily caveated as it is taken from live sources and therefore has not been assured to the level that published data has been and as such there are no plans to share with honourable Members.