accommodation for refugees, asylum seekers, legal migrants and illegal migrants
Case reference FOI2022/01470
Published 2 November 2022
Request
How many individual requests has the Council received from the Home Office to provide housing or accommodation for refugees, asylum seekers, legal migrants and illegal migrants between January 1st 2022 to October 14th 2022?
How many have successfully been provided with housing or accommodation during the same time period?
Response
Please Note:
Typically the Home Office does not make requests to councils to accommodate specific individuals.
· In relation to the Homes for Ukraine scheme, people are not accommodated by the council in the first instance.
· Individuals may be housed on the basis of a homelessness application if appropriate, there is no Home Office involvement in this process.
· For refugee schemes, the council is asked to commit/offer accommodation and support. Potential matches for this accommodation are provided by the Home Office.
· Under General Asylum Dispersal, currently councils do not have direct responsibility for housing people and accommodation is sourced/provided by the Home Office's contracted providers.
· For UASC, requests are made relating to placing/supporting individuals these are made via regional discussions between local authorities and not directly from the Home Office.
· Local authorities are not able to offer any social housing to illegal immigrants, as this would be unlawful. Such individuals are not likely to approach the council for assistance in practice.
How many individual requests has the Council received from the Home Office to provide housing or accommodation for asylum seekers, refugees, legal migrants and illegal migrants? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022):
A: Please see above outline of the refugee resettlement process. 17 families have been put forward by the Home Office via the ACRS and ARAP schemes since the 1st Jan 2022.
How many asylum seekers, refugees, legal migrants and illegal migrants has the Council successfully provided housing or accommodation for during this period? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022):
A: 11 families under the ACRS and ARAP schemes since the 1st Jan 2022.
BREAKDOWN OF EACH CATEGORY IF DATA AVAILABLE
How many requests has the Council received from the Home Office to provide housing or accommodation for asylum seekers? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022)
A: 0
How many asylum seekers has the Council successfully provided housing or accommodation for? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022)
A: 0
How many requests has the Council received from the Home Office to provide housing or accommodation for refugees? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022)
A: Please see above outline of the refugee resettlement process however 17 families have been put forward by the Home Office via the ACRS and ARAP schemes since the 1st Jan 2022.
How many refugees has the Council successfully provided housing or accommodation for? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022)
A: 11 families under the ACRS and ARAP schemes since the 1st Jan 2022.
How many requests has the Council received from the Home Office to provide housing or accommodation for legal migrants? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022)
A: 0
How many legal migrants has the Council successfully provided housing or accommodation for? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022)
A: 0
How many requests has the Council received from the Home Office to provide housing or accommodation for illegal migrants? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022)
A: 0
How many illegal migrants has the Council successfully provided housing or accommodation for? (From Saturday 1st January 2022 - Friday 14th October 2022).
A: 0
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