§ Mr. ColemanTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many asylum seekers are supported by(a) each local authority and (b) local authorities in each Government office region. [68901]
§ Beverley HughesI have been asked to reply.
From the grant claims sent to the Home Office by local authorities, as at September 2001, 26,800 single adult asylum seekers and 14,600 families were supported by local authorities. Figures including dependants are not available.
Of these cases, the following number were supported by each local authority.
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Total number of: Local authority1 Single adults2 Families2 Barking and Dagenham 490 470 Barnet3 260 380 Barnsley 50 10 Bath and North East Somerset * * Bedfordshire 210 50 Bexley3 120 60 Birmingham 360 150 Blackburn with Darwen 10 * Blackpool 20 * Blaenau Gwent County 0 0 Bolton Metro 20 10 Bournemouth 120 30 Bracknell Forest * * Bradford 30 20 Brent3 330 450 Bridgend County 0 0 Brighton and Hove 170 20 Bristol City 160 40 Bromley3 80 100 Buckinghamshire 40 10 Bury 10 10 Caerphilly County * 0 Calderdale 20 0 Cambridgeshire 110 30 Camden3 280 270 Cardiff 40 20 Carmarthenshire 0 0 Ceredigion CC * 0 Cheshire 20 10 City of Newcastle 160 40 Conwy CBC 0 0 Cornwall * * Corporation of London3 100 30 Coventry 50 20 Croydon3 70 160 Cumbria * 0 Cyngor Gwynedd Council 0 0 Darlington 0 0 Denbighshire County 0 0 Derby 100 20 Derbyshire * 0 Devon 10 0 248W
Total number of: Local authority1 Single adults2 Families2 Doncaster 10 10 Dorset 40 * Dudley 20 10 Durham 0 0 Ealing3 150 190 East Riding of Yorkshire 10 0 East Sussex 160 20 Enfield3 420 470 Essex 140 40 Flintshire * 0 Gateshead 40 0 Gloucestershire 90 30 Greenwich3 500 340 Hackney3 0 0 Halton 0 0 Hammersmith and Fulham3 520 420 Hampshire 50 10 Haringey3 1,290 1,360 Harrow3 150 180 Hartlepool 0 0 Havering 190 100 Herefordshire * * Hertfordshire 340 90 Hillingdon3 570 170 Hounslow3 120 190 Isle of Anglesey CC 0 0 Isle of Wight * * Isles of Scilly 0 0 Islington3 1.400 520 Kensington and Chelsea3 390 270 Kent 3,020 460 Kingston Upon Hull 40 10 Kingston Upon Thames3 60 80 Kirklees 30 10 Knowsley 10 10 Lambeth3 980 740 Lancashire 10 * Leeds 70 20 Leicester 110 60 Leicestershire 50 20 Lewisham3 460 450 Lincolnshire 100 20 Liverpool 180 70 Luton 460 130 Manchester 450 180 Medway 20 10 Merthyr Tydfil County 0 0 Merton3 160 200 Middlesbrough 80 10 Milton Keynes 80 30 Monmouthshire County * 0 Neath Port Talbot * 0 Newham3 1,110 1,130 Newport County (South Wales) 20 10 Norfolk 110 30 North East Lincolnshire 60 10 North Lincolnshire * * North Somerset 10 * North Tyneside 20 10 North Yorkshire 10 * Northamptonshire 580 110 Northumberland 0 0 Nottingham 110 20 Nottinghamshire 20 * Oldham 10 10 Oxfordshire 490 140 Pembrokeshire 0 0 Peterborough 60 30 Plymouth 10 10 Poole 0 0 Portsmouth 150 30 Powys CC 0 0
Total number of: Local authority1 Single adults2 Families2 Reading 240 80 Redbridge3 670 330 Redcar and Cleveland 20 * Rhondda Cynon Taff County 10 * Richmond Upon Thames3 570 260 Rochdale 20 10 Rotherham 30 10 Rutland 10 * Salford 80 40 Sandwell 250 50 Sefton 20 10 Sheffield 320 120 Shropshire * 0 Slough 340 190 Solihull 10 * Somerset * * South Gloucestershire 10 10 South Tyneside * * Southampton 310 50 Southend on Sea 210 100 Southwark3 1,100 500 St. Helens * 0 Staffordshire 80 10 Stockport 20 10 Stockton On Tees * 0 Stoke-on-Trent 50 * Suffolk 20 10 Sunderland 20 10 Surrey 210 40 Sutton 110 80 Swansea City and County 0 0 Swindon 60 20 Tameside 20 * Telford and Wrekin 20 * Thurrock 90 30 Torbay 0 0 Torfaen CBC 0 0 Tower Hamlets3 700 250 Trafford 20 10 Vale of Glamorgan 10 * Wakefield 50 10 Walsall 20 10 Waltham Forest3 470 360 Wandsworth3 110 220 Warrington * 0 Warwickshire 90 20 West Berkshire 10 *0 West Sussex 120 20 Westminster3 490 370 Wigan 10 * Wiltshire 10 10 Windsor and Maidenhead * * Wirral 0 * Wokingham 10 * Wolverhampton 20 10 Worcestershire 40 10 Wrexham 0 0 York 10 * Total 26,230 14,180 1All figures rounded to the nearest 10. Figures between 1 and 4 are represented by a *. Figures may not sum due to rounding. 2Supported as at end of September 2001. 3 Greater London Note:
Figures by government office region are not available.