Question follow-through · 43109
Asylum: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with local authorities on the potential impact of the costs of supporting asylum seekers on the financial sustainability of local authorities.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with local authorities on the potential impact of the costs of supporting asylum seekers on the financial sustainability of local authorities.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2025
Answer published
This Government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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