Question follow-through · 28146

Asylum: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made changes to the level of funding to local authorities for asylum seekers since July 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 3 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 5 Feb 2025
Answer: 10 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made changes to the level of funding to local authorities for asylum seekers since July 2024.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Home Office has a statutory obligation to support asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute.In recent years, the Home Office has had various grants through which we provide funds to support local authorities, with responsibilities for housing as...

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