Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are housed in Banbury constituency as of 21 November 2022; and how many were housed in that constituency in (a) 2022, (b) 2021, (c) 2020 and (d) 2019.

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 a reportable format, and to provide the information could only be done at 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.