Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are housed in (a) Sandwell and (b) each of the other local authorities in the West Midlands as of 13 October 2023.

Published statistics of where asylum seekers are accommodated can be viewed under the Local Authority Dataset Asy-D11 at:

Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)