PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Asylum: Local Government (17 November 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to make additional funding available for (a) schooling and (b) healthcare for local authorities with higher placements of asylum seekers.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

The Home Office is working with Local Authority Chief Executives to ensure asylum seekers who require support because they would otherwise be destitute are dispersed equitably across the UK.

Any extra costs to local authorities caused by the placement of supported asylum seekers in their areas are being considered as part of this work.

Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
29 November 2021