To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were supported in National Asylum Support Service and Border and Immigration Agency accommodation in (a) Newcastle and (b) the north-east in each quarter of (i) 2005, (ii) 2006 and (ii) 2007. (178190)

[holding answer 15 January 2008]: The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of support, broken down by Government office region and local authority, are published on a quarterly and annual basis. Copies of these publications are available from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Further breakdowns of those in receipt of support by parliamentary constituency are available from the Library of the House.