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Asylum: Finance

Volume 462: debated on Wednesday 11 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments have been made to each local authority from the (a) Challenge Fund for Refugees and (b) Purposeful Activities for Asylum Seekers Fund in each year since these funds were established. (146001)

The information is shown in the following tables.

Payments made to local authorities from the challenge fund

£

Local authority

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Manchester City Council

73,163.00

69,079.00

77,650.00

Kent County Council

13,984.00

14,404.00

North Tyneside Council

26,796.00

Newcastle City Council

31,800.00

Liverpool City Council

64,714.00

Cardiff City Council

51,272.00

48,068.00

Leicestershire City Council

21,500.00

36,158.00

Northamptonshire County Council

28,000.00

Stoke on Trent City Council

34,050.00

Portsmouth City Council

33,095.00

Middlesbrough Council

12,320.00

London Borough of Brent

39,500.00

Total

73,163.00

109,859.00

162,190.00

209,268.00

69,253.00

51,820.00

Payments made to local authorities from the purposeful activities for asylum seekers fund

£

Local authority

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Leicestershire County Council

2,440.00

2,850.00

27,550.00

Nottingham City Council

3,537.00

7,207.00

35,000.00

7,384.00

London Borough of Islington

3,582.00

3,475.00

2,778.00

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

5,265.00

5,260.00

London Borough of Greenwich

27,185.00

London Borough of Lewisham

20,000.00

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

5,380.00

London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

4,009.00

12,636.40

Middlesbrough Council

3,500.00

Newcastle City Council

3,300.00

24,756.00

24,880.00

South Tyneside Council

1,350.00

Gateshead Council

12,000.00

Manchester City Council

11,350.00

10,000.00

Stoke on Trent City Council

4,000.00

8,189.80

Rotherham Borough Council

7,000.00

7,260.00

Leeds City Council

21,582.00

Wakefield Council

14,534.00

West Berkshire Council

8,500.00

Newport City Council

6,230.00

Birmingham City Council

575.00

Solihull Council

968.00

Sheffield City Council

36,854.00

Coventry City Council

19,582.00

North Tyneside Council

10,440.00

9,590.00

Cambridgeshire County Council

28,900.00

Total

160,176.00

119,311.40

114,272.00

28,219.80

28,900.00