Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding has been provided to Stoke-on-Trent constituency through the Migration Fund; and how much of that provision has been spent in the last 12 months.

The Controlling Migration Fund was launched in November 2016 to support English local authorities and their communities tackle issues linked to high and unexpected volumes of recent immigration. Funding is available until 2020 to ease pressures on local services and direct enforcement action against people in the UK illegally.

So far 94 applications have been considered by ministers, of which 88, worth £34.1 million, have been approved with the main pressures focused on rogue landlords, cohesion/integration, the use of the English language and data collection.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has submitted an application which will be considered at the next Controlling Migration Programme board in January 2018.