Question follow-through · 111394
Social Services: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of local authority spending on asylum-related social care was reimbursed by central government in each financial year since 2019-20.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2026 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of local authority spending on asylum-related social care was reimbursed by central government in each financial year since 2019-20.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2026
Answer published
The government is committed to ensuring that funding is targeted effectively at the places and services that need it most. This includes committing to multi-year allocations for each council through the 2026-27 Local Government Finance Settlement and movi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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