Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were accommodated in each asylum reception centre in the UK at the end of 2018.

Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute can apply for free accommodation and cash support to cover their essential living needs whilst their cases are considered. If they have an emergency need for ac-commodation they can ask to be put in initial accommodation whilst their support applications are being processed (asylum seekers receive section 98 support while in initial accommodation).

Quarterly data, correct as to September 2018, regarding the number of resi-dents in initial accommodation is included in the published statistics, which can be found on data table volume 4 at;
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018-data-tables

The Home Office does not publish data for each separate initial accommodation.