Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees have been accommodated by each London borough in the last three years.

Figures on asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support (dispersed accommodation or subsistence only) by local authority, are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release, in table as_16q in volume 4 of the Asylum data tables. The following table gives the number of asylum seekers housed in dispersed accommodation in each London local authority, as at the end of March for the last three years.

A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics January to March 2016, is available from:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2016.