Number of asylum seekers currently supported by Herefordshire Council
Case reference FOI2023/01713
Published 15 November 2023
Request
I am looking to find the number of asylum seekers the council is currently supporting.
Under FOI laws, please use the most recently available data to provide the areas where they are accommodated, broken down into the flowing parliamentary constituencies:
North Herefordshire;
Hereford and South Herefordshire;
Please provide the total number of asylum seekers per parliamentary constituency, or the postcode prefix if this is easier.
Please DO NOT provide the full postcode, or the name of any building.
Please state the date to which this data applies, being as specific as possible.
Response
I am looking to find the number of asylum seekers the council is currently supporting.
There is contingency accommodation for asylum seekers in both parliamentary constituencies. It is the Home Office which is responsible for providing support to asylum seekers and it has commissioned Serco, a private company to provide such day to day support in this geographic area. The local authority provides limited support. For further information regarding the Home Office support for asylum seekers, please contact the Home Office by emailing public.enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk or calling 020 7035 4848.
The information below is based on data from 10th November 2023.
Under FOI laws, please use the most recently available data to provide the areas where they are accommodated, broken down into the flowing parliamentary constituencies:
North Herefordshire;
There is contingency accommodation located in this constituency. There are less than 10 children currently living there who are of school age and who have all been allocated school places, which is a function of the Local Authority.
Hereford and South Herefordshire;
There is contingency accommodation in this constituency but as this is for single adult male asylum seekers, support is not being provided by Herefordshire Council, but by the Home Office and Serco, their private provider.
Please provide the total number of asylum seekers per parliamentary constituency, or the postcode prefix if this is easier.
Please DO NOT provide the full postcode, or the name of any building.
Please state the date to which this data applies, being as specific as possible.
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