Home Office written question – answered at on 18 September 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in each nation and region of the UK receive support under her Department's asylum support regulations in each Government-defined period in each of the last three years.
Support may be provided under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute until their asylum claim is determined. Section 95 support can be provided as both accommodation and subsistence, or accommodation or subsistence only.
The table below shows the number of asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support in each Local Authority and region of England and Wales as at the end of June in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of section 95 support, broken down by Local Authority, are published on a quarterly basis by the Home Office in Table as_16_q of the Immigration Statistics release .The latest publication (Immigration statistics, April to June 2015 ) is available on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2015
Table A: Asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support, by local authority, as at end of June 2013 to June 2015 | |||
Local Authority | as at the end of June 2013 | as at the end of June 2014 | as at the end of June 2015 |
Total | 21,423 | 26,720 | 30,457 |
Aberdeen | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Aberdeenshire | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Adur | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Allerdale | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alnwick | z | z | z |
Amber Valley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Angus | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Antrim | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ards | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Argyll and Bute | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Armagh | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arun | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ashfield | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Ashford | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Aylesbury Vale | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Babergh | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Ballymena | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ballymoney | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Banbridge | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Barking and Dagenham | 132 | 140 | 126 |
Barnet | 108 | 90 | 84 |
Barnsley | 236 | 391 | 394 |
Barrow-in-Furness | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Basildon | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Basingstoke and Deane | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bassetlaw | 3 | 4 | 0 |
Bath and North East Somerset | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Bedford | 5 | 12 | 12 |
Belfast | 346 | 465 | 496 |
Berwick-upon-Tweed | z | z | z |
Bexley | 33 | 33 | 23 |
Birmingham | 974 | 1,269 | 1,400 |
Blaby | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 249 | 280 | 299 |
Blackpool | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Blaenau Gwent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Blyth Valley | z | z | z |
Bolsover | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bolton | 677 | 755 | 931 |
Boston | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bournemouth | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Bracknell Forest | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Bradford | 183 | 264 | 556 |
Braintree | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Breckland | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Brent | 106 | 104 | 107 |
Brentwood | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bridgend | 0 | 6 | 4 |
Bridgnorth | z | z | z |
Brighton and Hove | 24 | 20 | 22 |
Bristol | 224 | 280 | 278 |
Broadland | 7 | 5 | 5 |
Bromley | 21 | 20 | 19 |
Bromsgrove | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Broxbourne | 11 | 7 | 3 |
Broxtowe | 15 | 3 | 3 |
Burnley | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Bury | 254 | 306 | 381 |
Caerphilly | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Calderdale | 143 | 167 | 166 |
Cambridge | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Camden | 16 | 14 | 21 |
Cannock Chase | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Canterbury | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Caradon | z | z | z |
Cardiff | 924 | 976 | 1,041 |
Carlisle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Carmarthenshire | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Carrick | z | z | z |
Carrickfergus | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Castle Morpeth | z | z | z |
Castle Point | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Castlereagh | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Central Bedfordshire | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Ceredigion | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Charnwood | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Chelmsford | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Cheltenham | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Cherwell | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Cheshire East | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cheshire West and Chester | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Chester | z | z | z |
Chesterfield | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Chester-le-Street | z | z | z |
Chichester | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chiltern | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Chorley | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Christchurch | 0 | 0 | 0 |
City of London | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Colchester | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Coleraine | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Congleton | z | z | z |
Conwy | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cookstown | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Copeland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Corby | 5 | 1 | 0 |
Cornwall | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cotswold | 0 | 0 | 0 |
County Durham | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Coventry | 400 | 481 | 506 |
Craigavon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Craven | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Crawley | 4 | 5 | 13 |
Crewe and Nantwich | z | z | z |
Croydon | 119 | 153 | 162 |
Dacorum | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Darlington | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Dartford | 6 | 0 | 5 |
Daventry | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Denbighshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Derby | 346 | 479 | 605 |
Derbyshire Dales | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Derry | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Derwentside | z | z | z |
Doncaster | 156 | 226 | 220 |
Dover | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Down | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dudley | 144 | 186 | 226 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dundee | 10 | 11 | 14 |
Dungannon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Durham | z | z | z |
Ealing | 133 | 128 | 168 |
Easington | z | z | z |
East Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Cambridgeshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Devon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Dorset | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Hampshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Hertfordshire | 1 | 0 | 0 |
East Lindsey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Lothian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Northamptonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 4 | 4 | 0 |
East Staffordshire | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Eastleigh | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Eden | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 8 | 12 | 18 |
Eilean Siar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ellesmere Port and Neston | z | z | z |
Elmbridge | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Enfield | 201 | 183 | 201 |
Epping Forest | 8 | 13 | 11 |
Epsom and Ewell | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Erewash | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Exeter | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Falkirk | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Fareham | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fenland | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Fermanagh | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fife | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Flintshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Forest Heath | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Forest of Dean | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fylde | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gateshead | 141 | 216 | 261 |
Gedling | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Glasgow | 1,965 | 2,485 | 2,602 |
Gloucester | 70 | 89 | 110 |
Gosport | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Gravesham | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Great Yarmouth | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Greenwich | 85 | 77 | 83 |
Guildford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Gwynedd | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Hackney | 44 | 43 | 38 |
Halton | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Hambleton | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 24 | 14 | 25 |
Harborough | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Haringey | 162 | 147 | 139 |
Harlow | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Harrogate | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Harrow | 52 | 50 | 69 |
Hart | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hartlepool | 121 | 122 | 135 |
Hastings | 53 | 68 | 70 |
Havant | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Havering | 6 | 26 | 25 |
Herefordshire | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Hertsmere | 1 | 7 | 4 |
High Peak | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Highland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hillingdon | 135 | 146 | 154 |
Hinckley and Bosworth | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Horsham | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Hounslow | 75 | 58 | 78 |
Huntingdonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hyndburn | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Inverclyde | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ipswich | 57 | 70 | 64 |
Isle of Anglesey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Isle of Wight | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Isles of Scilly | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Islington | 21 | 25 | 34 |
Kennet | z | z | z |
Kensington and Chelsea | 11 | 14 | 16 |
Kerrier | z | z | z |
Kettering | 0 | 1 | 1 |
King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kingston upon Hull | 157 | 257 | 261 |
Kingston upon Thames | 25 | 37 | 42 |
Kirklees | 225 | 287 | 326 |
Knowsley | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Lambeth | 51 | 57 | 43 |
Lancaster | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Larne | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Leeds | 285 | 472 | 501 |
Leicester | 503 | 776 | 851 |
Lewes | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Lewisham | 126 | 123 | 93 |
Lichfield | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Limavady | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lincoln | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Lisburn | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Liverpool | 1,172 | 1,466 | 1,417 |
Luton | 31 | 43 | 73 |
Macclesfield | z | z | z |
Magherafelt | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Maidstone | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Maldon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malvern Hills | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Manchester | 648 | 779 | 934 |
Mansfield | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Medway | 4 | 3 | 5 |
Melton | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mendip | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Merton | 54 | 50 | 36 |
Mid Bedfordshire | z | z | z |
Mid Devon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mid Suffolk | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mid Sussex | 8 | 5 | 0 |
Middlesbrough | 706 | 799 | 746 |
Midlothian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 16 | 11 | 17 |
Mole Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Monmouthshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moray | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moyle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Neath Port Talbot | 3 | 1 | 2 |
New Forest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Newark and Sherwood | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 327 | 358 | 546 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Newham | 385 | 382 | 348 |
Newport | 263 | 391 | 459 |
Newry and Mourne | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Newtownabbey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Cornwall | z | z | z |
North Devon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Dorset | 0 | 0 | 1 |
North Down | 0 | 0 | 1 |
North East Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North East Lincolnshire | 0 | 0 | 1 |
North Hertfordshire | 0 | 1 | 3 |
North Kesteven | 0 | 0 | 1 |
North Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Lincolnshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Norfolk | 0 | 1 | 0 |
North Shropshire | z | z | z |
North Somerset | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Tyneside | 52 | 100 | 107 |
North Warwickshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North West Leicestershire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Wiltshire | z | z | z |
Northampton | 9 | 16 | 12 |
Northumberland | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Norwich | 107 | 115 | 113 |
Nottingham | 408 | 598 | 791 |
Nuneaton and Bedworth | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Oadby and Wigston | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Oldham | 421 | 539 | 637 |
Omagh | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Oswestry | z | z | z |
Other and Unknown | 41 | 153 | 165 |
Oxford | 8 | 11 | 12 |
Pembrokeshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pendle | 0 | 6 | 5 |
Penwith | z | z | z |
Perth and Kinross | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Peterborough | 98 | 131 | 137 |
Plymouth | 147 | 222 | 235 |
Poole | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Portsmouth | 98 | 131 | 128 |
Powys | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Preston | 4 | 4 | 131 |
Purbeck | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reading | 10 | 9 | 14 |
Redbridge | 190 | 189 | 180 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Redditch | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Reigate and Banstead | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Renfrewshire | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Restormel | z | z | z |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Ribble Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Richmond upon Thames | 9 | 8 | 14 |
Richmondshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rochdale | 403 | 615 | 984 |
Rochford | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Rossendale | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rother | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Rotherham | 392 | 342 | 334 |
Rugby | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Runnymede | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Rushcliffe | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Rushmoor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rutland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ryedale | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Salford | 536 | 533 | 592 |
Salisbury | z | z | z |
Sandwell | 359 | 593 | 695 |
Scarborough | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sedgefield | z | z | z |
Sedgemoor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sefton | 0 | 2 | 8 |
Selby | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sevenoaks | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Sheffield | 370 | 550 | 654 |
Shepway | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shrewsbury and Atcham | z | z | z |
Shropshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Slough | 17 | 33 | 47 |
Solihull | 3 | 8 | 5 |
South Ayrshire | 0 | 1 | 2 |
South Bedfordshire | z | z | z |
South Bucks | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Cambridgeshire | 0 | 2 | 3 |
South Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Gloucestershire | 37 | 38 | 54 |
South Hams | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Holland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Kesteven | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Lakeland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Lanarkshire | 3 | 3 | 4 |
South Norfolk | 0 | 1 | 0 |
South Northamptonshire | 0 | 1 | 1 |
South Oxfordshire | 0 | 0 | 3 |
South Ribble | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Shropshire | z | z | z |
South Somerset | 2 | 2 | 2 |
South Staffordshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Tyneside | 37 | 36 | 58 |
Southampton | 90 | 88 | 67 |
Southend-on-Sea | 8 | 9 | 7 |
Southwark | 64 | 63 | 89 |
Spelthorne | 0 | 4 | 5 |
St. Albans | 0 | 8 | 8 |
St. Edmundsbury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
St. Helens | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Stafford | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Staffordshire Moorlands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stevenage | 10 | 9 | 3 |
Stirling | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Stockport | 83 | 100 | 115 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 490 | 579 | 697 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 452 | 444 | 625 |
Strabane | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stratford-on-Avon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stroud | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Suffolk Coastal | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Sunderland | 145 | 167 | 119 |
Surrey Heath | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Sutton | 6 | 17 | 12 |
Swale | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Swansea | 363 | 523 | 773 |
Swindon | 83 | 90 | 106 |
Tameside | 184 | 200 | 253 |
Tamworth | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Tandridge | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Taunton Deane | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Teesdale | z | z | z |
Teignbridge | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Telford and Wrekin | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Tendring | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Test Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tewkesbury | 0 | 1 | 6 |
Thanet | 0 | 2 | 0 |
The Vale of Glamorgan | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Three Rivers | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Thurrock | 16 | 30 | 32 |
Tonbridge and Malling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Torbay | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Torfaen | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Torridge | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Tower Hamlets | 24 | 24 | 24 |
Trafford | 65 | 79 | 91 |
Tunbridge Wells | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tynedale | z | z | z |
Uttlesford | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vale of White Horse | 7 | 7 | z |
Vale Royal | 0 | z | 8 |
Wakefield | 32 | 60 | 82 |
Walsall | 156 | 215 | 234 |
Waltham Forest | 168 | 188 | 184 |
Wandsworth | 59 | 55 | 42 |
Wansbeck | z | z | z |
Warrington | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Warwick | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Watford | 0 | 13 | 15 |
Waveney | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Waverley | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Wealden | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wear Valley | z | z | z |
Wellingborough | 0 | 5 | 7 |
Welwyn Hatfield | 3 | 5 | 4 |
West Berkshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Devon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Dorset | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Lancashire | 0 | 0 | 4 |
West Lindsey | 1 | 1 | 1 |
West Lothian | 0 | 2 | 0 |
West Oxfordshire | 1 | 0 | 0 |
West Somerset | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Wiltshire | z | z | z |
Westminster | 34 | 49 | 43 |
Weymouth and Portland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wigan | 304 | 448 | 592 |
Wiltshire | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Winchester | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Wirral | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Woking | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wokingham | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 402 | 571 | 645 |
Worcester | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Worthing | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Wrexham | 40 | 52 | 68 |
Wychavon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wycombe | 6 | 18 | 35 |
Wyre | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Wyre Forest | 0 | 0 | 1 |
York | 0 | 0 | 0 |
z = Not applicable. | |||
: = Not available. | |||
1. The data include dependants in receipt of support. | |||
2. The data excludes unaccompanied asylum seeking children supported by Local Authorities. |
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