Written questions

Asylum: Local Government

Commons · Question 46893 · Tabled 22 Apr 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 30 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28146 on Asylum: Local Government, what data her Department holds on funding to local councils in England for (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 30 Apr 2025

Funding provided to Local Authorities by the Home Office in respect of asylum & resettlement is made in the form of grant payments.As per the most recent published Cabinet Office grant data, in financial year 2023-24 these Home Office grants totalled ...