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Asylum Seekers Dispersal Programme

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to which local authorities asylum seekers were dispersed to in 2006 under the asylum seekers dispersal programme; and how many asylum seekers were dispersed to each local authority in the programme. [163148]

Mr. Byrne: The following table shows the local authorities that asylum seekers were dispersed to as at the end of December 2006 under the asylum seekers dispersal programme; and how many asylum seekers were dispersed to each local authority in the programme.

The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of support, broken down by Government office region and local authority, are published on a quarterly and annual basis. Copies of these publications are available on the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Further breakdowns of those in receipt of support, by parliamentary constituency, are also available from the Library of the House.

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Asylum seekers supported in dispersed accommodation( 1,2,3) by local authority and UK Government office region, as at the end of December 2006
Number of applicants (including dependants)
Region	Local authority( 4)	Dispersed	Disbenefited( 5)	Total
England
North East	Darlington	40	—	40
	Gateshead	365	—	365
	Hartlepool	5	—	5
	Middlesbrough	605	—	605
	Newcastle upon Tyne	1,245	—	1,245
	North Tyneside	215	—	215
	Redcar and Cleveland	100	—	100
	South Tyneside	140	—	140
	Stockton-on-Tees	360	—	360
	Sunderland	280	—	280
	Total	3,360	—	3,360
North West	Blackburn with Darwen	495	—	495
	Bolton	545	—	545
	Bury	510	—	510
	Hyndburn	10	—	10
	Liverpool	810	—	810
	Macclesfield	10	—	10
	Manchester	1,355	—	1,355
	Oldham	480	—	480
	Rochdale	405	—	405
	Salford	945	—	945
	Sefton	15	—	15
	Stockport	165	—	165
	Tameside	235	—	235
	Trafford	30	—	30
	Wigan	510	—	510
	Total	6,515	—	6,515
Yorkshire and the Humber	Barnsley	525	—	525
	Bradford	740	—	740
	Calderdale	235	—	235
	Doncaster	665	—	665
	Kingston upon Hull	455	—	455
	Kirklees	790	—	790
	Leeds	2,035	5	2,040
	North East Lincolnshire	50	—	50
	Rotherham	780	—	780
	Sheffield	1,060	—	1,060
	Wakefield	400	—	400
	Total	7,745	5	7,750
East Midlands	Blaby	5	—	5
	Broxtowe	5	—	5
	Derby	425	—	425
	Gedling	15	—	15
	Leicester	695	—	695
	Nottingham	1,110	—	1,110
	Rushcliffe	5	—	5
	Total	2,255	—	2,255
West Midlands	Birmingham	1,835	—	1,835
	Coventry	795	—	795
	Dudley	655	—	655
	Newcastle-under-Lyme	30	—	30
	Sandwell	425	—	425
	Solihull	5	—	5
	Stoke-on-Trent	685	—	685
	Walsall	160	—	160
	Wolverhampton	805	—	805
	Total	5,395	—	5,395
East of England	Broadland	5	—	5
	Colchester	*	—	*
	Epping Forest	25	—	25
	Hertsmere	5	—	5
	Ipswich	10	—	10
	Luton	40	5	45
	Norwich	150	—	150
	Peterborough	205	—	205
	Southend-on-Sea	5	—	5
	Tendring	5	—	5
	Watford	5	—	5
	Total	450	5	455
Greater London	Barking and Dagenham	55	—	55
	Barnet	15	—	15
	Bexley	5	—	5
	Brent	5	—	5
	Bromley	10	—	10
	Camden	*	—	*
	Croydon	55	5	55
	Ealing	15	—	15
	Enfield	225	10	235
	Greenwich	*	—	*
	Hackney	70	5	70
	Hammersmith and Fulham	5	5	5
	Haringey	370	—	370
	Harrow	15	10	25
	Havering	5	—	5
	Hillingdon	25	—	25
	Hounslow	55	—	55
	Islington	40	*	45
	Kingston upon Thames	—	5	5
	Lambeth	80	5	85
	Lewisham	25	—	25
	Merton	15	—	15
	Newham	50	*	55
	Redbridge	90	5	95
	Richmond upon Thames	5	—	5
	Southwark	15	—	15
	Sutton	—	5	5
	Tower Hamlets	10	—	10
	Waltham Forest	45	5	50
	Wandsworth	10	—	10
	Total	1,325	50	1,370
South East	Brighton and Hove	20	—	20
	Canterbury	5	—	5
	Dartford	5	—	5
	Hastings	65	—	65
	Oxford	5	—	5
	Portsmouth	410	—	410
	Reading	5	—	5
	Southampton	5	—	5
	Total	520	—	520
South Wes t	Bristol	370	—	370
	Gloucester	125	—	125
	Plymouth	365	—	365
	South Gloucestershire	70	—	70
	Swindon	170	—	170
	Total	1,105	—	1,105
	Total (England)	28,665	60	28,725
Wales	Cardiff	1,175	—	1,175
	Newport	440	—	440
	Swansea	865	—	865
	Wrexham	45	—	45
	Total	2,525	—	2,525
Scotland	Glasgow City	5,010	—	5,010
	Total	5,010	—	5,010
Ireland	Belfast	160	—	160
	Coleraine	*	—	*
	Lisburn	5	—	5
	Total	165	—	165
	Total (United Kingdom)	36,365	60	36,420
(1) Provisional figures (other than percentages) rounded to the nearest 5 with * = 1 or 2. (2) Excludes unaccompanied asylum seeking children supported by local authorities, estimated around 5,700 in September 2006. Excludes cases that pre-date the establishment of the asylum support system in April 2000, administered by local authorities under the interim provisions, estimated at up to 50 cases in December 2006. (3) Excludes those in initial accommodation, 1,525 as at the end of December 2006. (4) Only those local authorities where dispersed or disbenefited cases are resident are shown. (5 )Disbenefited cases are cases which were previously supported under the main UK benefits system and have been moved onto asylum support. Some of these cases have remained in the original social services accommodation.

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