I met Glasgow City Council to consider the city’s housing supply challenges on 12 December, and I will meet it again on 23 January.

In October, the Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees wrote to the United Kingdom Government to request funding to support local authorities to manage asylum pressure. However, no additional support was forthcoming. That is deeply disappointing, and ministers continue, alongside our Welsh Government colleagues, to press the matter. Clearly, the Home Office’s approach is pushing people into destitution, and the impact of that on Glasgow—Scotland’s largest dispersal area—is particularly acute. We will again call on the UK Government to recognise the devastating impact of its approach on local authorities, communities and asylum seekers.