Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional financial support her Department is making available to (a) Liverpool and (b) other cities that are accommodating asylum seekers to ensure that they can provide adequate (i) health, (ii) schooling, (iii) housing and (iv) other support services.

We recognise the important work Liverpool and Local Authorities across the UK undertake to support asylum seekers.

We have established working groups with Local Authorities to determine best practice, one of which relates to defining potential additional funding requirements.