Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in (a) Liverpool City Region, (b) Liverpool local authority area and (c) Liverpool Walton have been refused support under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1999 in each of the last five years.

The Home Office continue to provide accommodation and support to those failed asylum seekers and their dependents who are temporarily unable to leave the UK because of a practical or legal obstacle through the Section 4 provisions.

Information on numbers of cases who have been refused S4 support broken down by area of the UK, is unavailable and could be produced only at a disproportionate cost. The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications for S4 support in the quarterly transparency data available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2018