Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid to each local authority in the East of England in asylum seeker support in each year since 1997.

Payments to local authorities in the East of England in respect of asylum seeker support for the financial years between 2002-03 and 2013-14 are shown in the following table. Data for previous years are not available at the required level of analysis and it would incur disproportionate cost to provide the information for the years before 2002-03.