Asylum: Chippenham

(asked on 17th November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were accommodated in the constituency of Chippenham (a) on 17 November 2022, (b) in 2019, (c) in 2020, (d) in 2021 and (e) in 2022.


Answered by
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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 25th November 2022

The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.

The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of how many asylum seekers are accommodated in each constituency. This is as these figures are not available in reportable format, and to provide the information could only be done at a disproportionate cost. However, the latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data is published on a quarterly basis, with the latest information published 25 August 2022, and the next quarterly figures are due to be released later this month.

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