Asylum: Local Government
(asked on 22nd April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28146 on Asylum: Local Government, what data her Department holds on funding to local councils in England for (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees.
This question was answered on 30th April 2025
Funding provided to Local Authorities by the Home Office in respect of asylum & resettlement is made in the form of grant payments.
As per the most recent published Cabinet Office grant data, in financial year 2023-24 these Home Office grants totalled approximately £500m - Government grants statistics 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK.