Home Office written question – answered at on 9 September 2024.
Rupert Lowe
Reform UK, Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants are housed in the Great Yarmouth Borough Council area; what accommodation is used to house those migrants; and what the cost is of housing those migrants.
Angela Eagle
The Minister of State, Home Department
In accordance with the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, the Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and subsistence support whilst their application for asylum is being considered.
Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in different areas is routinely published by the Government in table ASY D_11 here:
Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Home Office does not publish asylum support data disaggregated by method of arrival.
Yes4 people think so
No35 people think not
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