Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding will be allocated to local authorities to support them with the resettlement of Afghan families in their areas in 2024.

Local authorities already receive the integration tariff (£20,520 per person over three years) where they are supporting arrivals under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy into settled accommodation, to support them to rebuild their lives in the UK and fully integrate into communities.

For arrivals up to the end of March 2024, the Government will be offering a package of financial support to local authorities for the resettlement of Afghan arrivals. This includes £28 per person per day for councils supporting households in transitional accommodation; a flexible housing fund to councils supporting a household into settled accommodation (£7,100 per person, capped at £35k per household). It also includes contingency new burdens funding to mitigate any additional pressures of homelessness presentations from transitional accommodation (this includes the £9,150 homelessness funding and up to six months wraparound funding for those in temporary accommodation).

This is an exceptional arrangement to acknowledge the urgent and unplanned use of transitional accommodation at this scale.

Amendments are being made to existing funding instructions to reflect this package of support, which will be published in due course.

The financial package for 2024/25 is still to be agreed and details will be published in due course with new funding instructions issued in the new financial year.