Housing: Asylum and Foreign Nationals

(asked on 14th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of (a) emergency and (b) long-term accommodation has been allocated to (i) asylum seekers and (ii) foreign nationals in the last 12 months.


Answered by
Rushanara Ali Portrait
Rushanara Ali
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 21st July 2025

The Home Office publishes data on individuals placed in accommodation in the gov.uk ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum seekers in receipt of support, individuals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, and those resettled via the Afghan Resettlement Programme, is published in table Reg_02 of the gov.uk ‘Regional and local authority data’, including breakdowns by accommodation type.

The department does not hold data on how many foreign nationals are accommodated in emergency or long-term accommodation.

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