§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of additional refugees resident and seeking assistance from local authorities in each London borough in(a) 1997 and (b) 1998 to date, divided into (i) single adults, (ii) families and (iii) unaccompanied adults. [56245]
§ Ms JowellI have been asked to reply.
241WFigures of asylum seekers supported by London boroughs are supplied to the Department weekly for adults and fortnightly for the other groups. The numbers
Week ending 26 December 1997 Week ending 16 October 1998 Borough Adults Families Unaccompanied children Adults Families Unaccompanied children Barking 75 43 n/a 408 139 n/a Barnet 154 156 6 285 216 23 Bexley 17 21 n/a 61 32 67 Brent 389 164 10 840 262 122 Bromley 24 29 4 100 91 29 Camden 416 241 28 536 371 77 Corporation of London 17 2 0 32 9 9 Croydon 206 159 217 270 183 152 Ealing 347 151 6 254 186 3 Enfield 39 69 n/a 124 112 8 Greenwich 186 102 3 459 276 n/a Hackney 548 230 8 684 294 n/a Hammersmith and Fulham 284 130 40 542 275 94 Haringay 527 405 n/a 1,187 637 n/a Harrow 124 178 1 182 85 3 Havering 8 4 0 50 7 5 Hillingdon 105 n/a n/a 323 n/a n/a Hounslow 90 137 1 172 191 15 Islington 233 133 27 845 261 137 Kensington and Chelsea 390 115 67 622 173 81 Kingston upon Thames 45 31 2 90 56 123 Lambeth 480 255 21 799 421 95 Lewisham 422 140 6 757 329 70 Merton 60 69 11 175 128 38 Newham 647 581 n/a 919 978 n/a Redbridge 52 118 7 157 178 36 Richmond 46 19 0 255 38 84 Southwark 202 332 28 424 532 57 Sutton 30 16 4 71 23 15 Tower Hamlets 155 50 7 156 83 2 Waltham Forest 208 139 4 511 249 15 Wandsworth 84 134 0 302 193 n/a Westminster 580 227 92 610 319 190